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- June 2023 (10)
- 07: Behold the Microscopically Tiny Handwriting of Novelist Robert Walser, Which Took Four Decades to Decipher (0)
- 07: Why Music Festivals Sound Better Than Ever: A Coachella Sound Engineer Demystifies Modern Sound Systems (0)
- 06: Why Movies Don’t Feel Like Movies Anymore: The Rise of Metamodernist Films, and How They Grew Out of Modernism & Postmodernism (0)
- 06: J. R. R. Tolkien Writes & Speaks in Elvish, a Language He Invented for The Lord of the Rings (0)
- 05: Watch a Japanese Artisan Make a Noh Mask, Creating an Astonishing Character From a Single Block of Wood (0)
- 05: Patton Oswalt to William & Mary’s Graduating Class: “You Poor Bastards,” “You Do Not Have a Choice But to Be Anything But Extraordinary” (4)
- 02: The Map of Medicine: A Comprehensive Animation Shows How the Fields of Modern Medicine Fit Together (0)
- 02: Nirvana’s “Come As You Are” Played By Musicians Around the World (0)
- 01: Fascism!: The US Army Publishes a Pamphlet in 1945 Explaining How to Spot Fascism at Home and Abroad (5)
- 01: The Complete Collection Of MTV’s Headbangers Ball: Watch 1,215 Videos from the Heyday of Metal Videos (10)
- May 2023 (47)
- 31: The 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Time, According to 177 Books Experts from 56 Countries (5)
- 31: Kraftwerk’s “The Robots” Performed by German 1st Graders in Cute Cardboard Robot Costumes (0)
- 30: The 1920s Lie Detector That Forced Suspected Criminals to Confess to a Skeleton (0)
- 30: Why French Sounds So Unlike Spanish, Italian & Other Romance Languages, Even Though They All Evolved from Latin (20)
- 29: The Art Collection of David Bowie: An Introduction (0)
- 26: Behold the Bridges in India Made of Living Tree Roots (0)
- 26: Jonathan Demme Turns the Kurt Vonnegut Story, “Who Am I This Time?,” Into a TV Movie, with Susan Sarandon & Christopher Walken in Starring Roles (1982) (0)
- 25: How John Keats Writes a Poem: A Line-by-Line Breakdown of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (3)
- 25: Google & Coursera Create a Career Certificate That Prepares Students for Cybersecurity Jobs in 6 Months (1)
- 24: Tina Turner (RIP) Delivers a Blistering Live Performance of “Proud Mary” on Italian TV (1971) (1)
- 24: Helen Keller Writes a Letter to Nazi Students Before They Burn Her Book: “History Has Taught You Nothing If You Think You Can Kill Ideas” (1933) (0)
- 24: John Singer Sargent’s Scandalous Paintings: An Introduction to Madame X and Dr. Pozzi at Home (2)
- 24: Considering Rocky/Creed, Our Most Successful Sports Film Franchise — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #149 (0)
- 23: Watch Ben Kingsley Play Salvador Dalí in the Trailer for the New Film, Dalíland (0)
- 23: Neil Gaiman Speaks at the Alternative Graduation Held at a College Resisting Ron DeSantis’ Hostile Takeover (3)
- 22: Watch the Original Schoolhouse Rock Composers Sing “Conjunction Junction” and “I’m Just a Bill” Live in Concert (0)
- 22: Martin Amis (RIP) Explains Why American Populism Is a Con (1)
- 19: What Happens When a Chess Player Mistakes a Grandmaster for a Beginner: It’s Pretty Delightful (1)
- 19: A Brief History of the Concept Album: From Woody Guthrie, to the Beatles and Pink Floyd, to Taylor Swift (0)
- 18: The First Full 3D Scan of the Titanic, Made of More Than 700,000 Images Capturing the Wreck’s Every Detail (16)
- 18: Google & Coursera Launch New Career Certificates That Prepare Students for Jobs in 2-6 Months: Business Intelligence & Advanced Data Analytics (34)
- 17: DJ Cummerbund’s Astonishing Mashups Create Unexpected Collaborations Between Rock, Soul & Hip Hop Icons (0)
- 17: Behold the International Ink Library Created by the U.S. Secret Service: Features A Collection of 12,000 Ink Samples (1)
- 16: Hear Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Last Playlist,” Which He Created for His Own Funeral: Erik Satie, Bill Evans, Debussy, Ravel & More (0)
- 16: Take Carl Jung’s Word Association Test, a Quick Route Into the Subconscious (1910) (5)
- 15: Watch Young David Attenborough Encounter Animals in Their Natural Habitats: Video from the 1950s and 1960s (0)
- 15: James Brown’s Historic Concert, Staged 24 Hours After Martin Luther King’s Assassination, Is Now Restored and Free to Watch Online (1)
- 12: Leonard Bernstein & Opera Star Christa Ludwig Get Into a Vigorous Creative Disagreement Over the Tempo of Mahler (1972) (1)
- 12: David Bowie Performs “Life on Mars?” and “Ashes to Ashes” on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” (1980) (1)
- 11: Theoretical Puppets: Salvador Dalí, Sigmund Freud, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, and Other Thinkers Come Back to Life as Hand-Operated Puppets (0)
- 11: In Search of the Best Croissant in Protest-Filled Paris (0)
- 10: The First-Ever Film Version of Lewis Carroll’s Tale, Alice in Wonderland (1903) (0)
- 10: The Story of the Flatiron Building, “New York’s Strangest Tower” (0)
- 09: What the Great Pyramids of Giza Originally Looked Like (9)
- 09: Cats Migrated to Europe 7,000 Years Earlier Than Once Thought (0)
- 08: Behold Shakespeare’s First Folio, the First Published Collection of Shakespeare’s Plays, Published 400 Year Ago (1623) (1)
- 08: Take Virtual Tours of Every Star Trek Enterprise Bridge: A New Interactive Web Portal Created by The Roddenberry Archive (1)
- 05: The Amazing Engineering of Gauntlets (Armored Gloves) from the 16th Century (0)
- 04: The Seattle Public Library Gives Students Free Digital Access to Books Getting Banned Across the United States (3)
- 04: The Pioneering Data Visualizations of William Playfair, Who Invented the Line, Bar, and Pie Charts (Circa 1786) (0)
- 04: A Star Wars Film Made in a Wes Anderson Aesthetic (0)
- 03: Watch a Traditional Japanese Carpenter Make 190+ Different Joints, All Without Nails, Screws, or Glue (2)
- 03: School Principal, Forced to Resign After Students Learn About Michelangelo’s “David,” Visits the Renaissance Statue in Florence (8)
- 02: Why Renaissance Masters Added Egg Yolk to Their Paints: A New Study Sheds Light (0)
- 02: How the Art of Patrick Nagel, Still Seen in Nail Salons Today, Crystallized the 1980s Aesthetic (0)
- 01: 1,800 Hand-Cut Silhouettes of 19th-Century Historical Figures Get Digitized & Put Online by the Smithsonian (1)
- 01: Parrots Taught to FaceTime Each Other Become Less Lonely, a New Study Shows (0)
- April 2023 (40)
- 28: Plan Your Trip Across the Roads of the Roman Empire, Using Modern Web Mapping Technology (6)
- 28: A Culinary Videos Series Shows Every Conceivable Way to Cook Eggs, Potatoes, Pizza, Bacon & More (0)
- 27: The Five Graphs That Changed the World: See Groundbreaking Data Visualizations by Florence Nightingale, W. E. B. DuBois & Beyond (0)
- 27: Pussy Riot Sends a Powerful Message to Vladimir Putin: “You Have Already Lost. You Know It.” (5)
- 26: Download Free Coloring Books from Nearly 100 Museums & Libraries (1)
- 26: Harry Belafonte (RIP), James Baldwin, Marlon Brando & Sidney Poitier Talk About Civil Rights, 1963 (1)
- 25: Urine Wheels in Medieval Manuscripts: Discover the Curious Diagnostic Tool Used by Medieval Doctors (4)
- 25: Stephen King Recommends 96 Books for Aspiring Writers to Read (4)
- 24: Watch Iggy Pop Perform Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” (2)
- 24: Watch Cab Calloway Actually Perform “Mr. Hepster’s Dictionary,” His Famous Dictionary of Jazz Slang (1944) (1)
- 21: Why the Ancient Romans Had Better Teeth Than Modern Europeans (11)
- 21: Nathan Lane Breaks Down His Broadway Career (0)
- 20: Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter to People Who Don’t Lock Bathroom Doors (0)
- 20: Succession Star Brian Cox Tells the Entire Histories of Ancient Greece and Rome in 20 Minutes Each (0)
- 19: Jazz Drummer Larnell Lewis Hears Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” for the Very First Time, Then Plays It Near-Perfectly (5)
- 19: Hayao Miyazaki Selects His 50 Favorite Children’s Books (2)
- 18: How to Paint Like Yayoi Kusama, the Avant-Garde Japanese Artist (0)
- 18: Wes Anderson Re-Creates The Truman Show, Armageddon & Out of Sight as Stage Plays Performed by the Cast of Rushmore (1999) (0)
- 17: An Introduction to the Painting That Changed Georgia O’Keeffe’s Career: Ram’s Head, White Hollyhock-Hills (1)
- 17: Discover the Medieval Illuminated Manuscript Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, “the World’s Most Beautiful Calendar” (1416) (0)
- 14: Discover the Sarajevo Haggadah, the Medieval Illuminated Manuscript That Survived the Inquisition, Holocaust & Yugoslav Wars (2)
- 14: Horrifying 1906 Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds (1)
- 13: How to Spot a Communist by Using Literary Criticism: A 1955 Manual from the U.S. Military (2)
- 13: The History of Ancient Japan: The Story of How Japan Began, Told by Those Who Witnessed It (297-1274) (1)
- 12: The Smithsonian Puts 4.5 Million High-Res Images Online and Into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Use (2)
- 12: 16-Year-Old Dave Grohl Demonstrates His Emerging Drumming Talent, Playing in His Punk Band “Mission Impossible” (1985) (0)
- 11: Al Jaffee, the Longest Working Cartoonist in History, Dies at 102: Discover How He Invented the Iconic “Folds-Ins” for Mad Magazine (4)
- 11: Historical Italian Cooking: How to Make Ancient Roman & Medieval Italian Dishes (0)
- 10: Behold the World’s First Modern Art Amusement Park, Featuring Attractions by Salvador Dalí, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein & More (1987) (0)
- 10: Discover Leonora Carrington, Britain’s Lost Surrealist Painter (1)
- 07: Watch Joni Mitchell Perform George Gershwin’s “Summertime” (4)
- 07: How John Singer Sargent Became the Greatest Portraitist Who Ever Lived — by Painting “Outside the Lines” (0)
- 06: Europe’s Oldest Map: Discover the Saint-Bélec Slab (Circa 2150–1600 BCE) (0)
- 06: Behold John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for His Masterpiece A Love Supreme (3)
- 05: Watch David Bowie’s Final Performance as Ziggy Stardust, Singing “I Got You Babe” with Marianne Faithfull, on The Midnight Special (1973) (0)
- 05: How to Develop Photographs with Coffee (1)
- 04: Watch a Transfixing Demonstration of Kumihimo, the Ancient Japanese Artform of Making Braids & Cords (1)
- 04: How Michelangelo’s David Still Draws Admiration and Controversy Today (2)
- 03: Ryuichi Sakamoto, RIP: Watch Him Create Groundbreaking Electronic Music in 1984 (0)
- 03: The Most Popular Song from Each Month Since January 1980: 40+ Years of Changing Musical Tastes in 50 Minutes (2)
- March 2023 (48)
- 31: Wes Anderson Goes Sci-Fi in 1950s America: Watch the Trailer for His New Film Asteroid City (1)
- 31: Carl Sagan Explains How the Ancient Greeks, Using Reason & Math, Discovered That the Earth Isn’t Flat Over 2,000 Years Ago (1)
- 30: David Byrne Explains How the “Big Suit” He Wore in Stop Making Sense Was Inspired by Japanese Kabuki Theatre (1)
- 30: The Complete “Everything is a Remix”: An Hour-Long Testament to the Brilliance & Beauty of Human Creativity (0)
- 29: Enroll Today for Online Courses with Stanford Continuing Studies: Open Culture Readers Get 15% Off (0)
- 29: Watch the World’s First Film Made in Babylonian, the Language of Ancient Mesopotamia (1)
- 29: Discover Edo, the Historic Green/Sustainable City of Japan (0)
- 28: Understanding Espresso: A Six-Part Series Explaining What It Takes to Pull the Ideal Shot (0)
- 28: Listen to The Epic of Gilgamesh Being Read in its Original Ancient Language, Akkadian (1)
- 27: A Medieval Arabic Manuscript Features the Designs for a “Perpetual Flute” and Other Ingenious Mechanical Devices (4)
- 27: The Pulp Magazine Archive Lets You Read Thousands of Digitized Issues of Classic Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Detective Fiction (1)
- 24: Beethoven’s Genome Has Been Sequenced for the First Time, Revealing Clues About the Great Composer’s Health & Family History (0)
- 24: Listen to Patti Smith’s Glorious Three Hour Farewell to CBGB’s on Its Final Night (2)
- 23: Ai Weiwei Recreates Monet’s Water Lilies Triptych Using 650,000 Lego Bricks (0)
- 23: Hear the Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago (6)
- 22: The March of Intellect: Newspaper Cartoons Satirize the Belief in Technological Progress in 1820s England (0)
- 22: Watch 13 Levels of Drumming, from Easy to Complex, Explained by Snarky Puppy Drummer Larnell Lewis (0)
- 21: Amélie Was Really a KGB Spy: Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet Re-Edits His Beloved Film, Amélie, into a New Comedic Short (5)
- 21: Behold an Astonishing Near-Nightly Spectacle in the Lightning Capital of the World (1)
- 20: Explore the Hereford Mappa Mundi, the Largest Medieval Map Still in Existence (Circa 1300) (1)
- 20: David Byrne Picks Up His Big Suit from the Dry Cleaners and Gets Ready for Stop Making Sense to Return to Theaters (2)
- 18: New Order’s 1983 Classic “Blue Monday” Played with Obsolete 1930s Instruments (0)
- 17: Behold the Fantastical, Uncannily Lifelike Puppets of Barnaby Dixon (0)
- 17: A Visit to the World’s Oldest Hotel, Japan’s Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan, Established in 705 AD (1)
- 16: A Student Writes a Rejection Letter Rejecting Harvard’s Rejection Letter (1981): Hear It Read by Actor Himesh Patel (0)
- 16: Artificial Intelligence, Art & the Future of Creativity: Watch the Final Chapter of the “Everything is a Remix” Series (0)
- 15: How the World’s Biggest Dome Was Built: The Story of Filippo Brunelleschi and the Duomo in Florence (3)
- 15: Jancis Robinson’s Wine Course: Explore the TV Series That Introduced the Wines of the World (1995) (0)
- 14: Why Georges Seurat’s Pointillist Painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Is a Masterpiece (2)
- 14: Watch a Visual Symphony of Everyday Objects in the French Stop Motion Film, “Grands Canons” (0)
- 13: How 99% of Ancient Literature Was Lost (8)
- 13: An Architect Breaks Down the Design of New York City Subway Stations, from the Oldest to Newest (1)
- 10: Behold 900+ Magnificent Botanical Collages Created by a 72-Year-Old Widow, Starting in 1772 (1)
- 10: A New Dutch Reality TV Show Challenges Contestants to Paint Like Vermeer–and It’s a Hit! (0)
- 09: The Map of Mathematics: An Animated Video Shows How All the Different Fields in Math Fit Together (11)
- 09: Wabi-Sabi: A Short Film on the Beauty of Traditional Japan (0)
- 08: Bored at Work? Here’s What Your Brain Is Trying to Tell You (3)
- 08: Essential Japanese Cinema: A Journey Through 50 of Japan’s Beautiful, Often Bizarre Films (1)
- 07: Hear De La Soul’s Highly Acclaimed & Influential Hip-Hop Albums Streaming Free for the First Time (0)
- 07: 1400 Engravings from the 19th Century Flow Together in the Short Animation “Still Life” (0)
- 06: The Dos & Don’ts of Driving to West Berlin During the Cold War: A Weird Piece of Ephemera from the 1980s (5)
- 06: Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Cookery Course: Free Video Lessons (0)
- 03: Discover Pemmican, The Power Bar Invented Centuries Ago by Native American Tribes (1)
- 03: A Street Musician Plays Pink Floyd’s “Time” in Front of the 1,900-Year-Old Pantheon in Rome (0)
- 02: Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon Turns 50: Hear It Get Psychoanalyzed by Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin (0)
- 02: John Cleese on How “Stupid People Have No Idea How Stupid They Are” (Otherwise Known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect) (6)
- 01: The Military Adventures of Alexander the Great: An Animated Documentary Shows How He Conquered Most of the Known World (336-323 BC) (0)
- 01: Ukraine Releases a Banksy Stamp That Features a Kid Judo Flipping an Older Man Resembling Vladimir Putin (1)
- February 2023 (40)
- 28: Venice’s Canals Have Run Dry During a Winter Drought, Leaving Gondolas Stuck in the Mud (0)
- 28: Michelangelo’s Illustrated Grocery List (1)
- 27: Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories: From Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” to “Cinderella” (2)
- 27: A Retired Math Teacher Helps Students Learn Geometry Through Quilting (1)
- 24: Why Maya Angelou’s Memoir I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Became One of the Most Banned Books of All Time (0)
- 24: How One Man Keeps Showing Films in a Japanese Cinema That Closed 58 Years Ago: A Moving, Short Documentary (0)
- 23: The Art of Making Movie Trailers: A Longtime Movie Trailer Editor Breaks Down Classic Previews for Dr. Strangelove, Carrie, and Others (0)
- 23: Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree: The Animated Film Narrated by Shel Silverstein Himself (1973) (0)
- 22: When a UFO Came to Japan in 1803: Discover the Legend of Utsuro-bune (2)
- 22: 3,000-Year-Old Olive Tree on the Greek Island of Crete Still Produces Olives Today (0)
- 21: Leonardo’s Lost Sketches Suggest That He Theorized Gravity Before Galileo & Newton (0)
- 21: John Waters Takes You on a Comical Tour of His Apartment (1986) (0)
- 20: Watch 80 Minutes of Never-Released Footage Showing the Wreckage of the Titanic (1986) (0)
- 20: Turning the Pages of an Illuminated Medieval Manuscript: An ASMR Museum Experience (0)
- 18: How to Silence the Negative Chatter in Our Heads: Psychology Professor Ethan Kross Explains (15)
- 17: The Life & Art of Gustav Klimt: A Short Art History Lesson on the Austrian Symbolist Painter and His Work (2)
- 17: How to Solve the Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Gloriously Animated Explanation of the Classic Game-Theory Problem (1)
- 16: Gnome Chomsky: The Indispensable Ornament for the Thinking Person’s Garden (0)
- 16: A 3D Computer Animation of the Panopticon, Jeremy Bentham’s 18th Century Design for an All-Controlling Prison (1)
- 15: The Futurist Architectural Designs Created by Étienne-Louis Boullée in the 18th Century (0)
- 15: An Exhilarating ASL Performance of Rihanna’s Super Bowl Halftime Show (0)
- 14: Archaeologists May Have Discovered a Secret Language in Lascaux & Chauvet Cave Paintings, Perhaps Revealing a 20,000-Year-Old “Proto-Writing” System (0)
- 14: Do Movie Androids Want to Love Us or Kill Us? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #144 (0)
- 13: Older Women Come Together & Play Punk Rock: Discover The Unglamorous Music Project (2)
- 13: An Introduction to the World-Renowned Architect Zaha Hadid, “the Queen of the Curve” (1)
- 10: Noam Chomsky on ChatGPT: It’s “Basically High-Tech Plagiarism” and “a Way of Avoiding Learning” (50)
- 10: LEGO Releases the Most Elaborate Lord of the Rings Set: A 6,167-Piece Rivendell (0)
- 10: How Vinyl Records Are Made (0)
- 09: How The Beatles Reviewed Songs Topping the Charts During the 1960s: Hear Their Takes on the Beach Boys, Ray Charles, the Byrds, Joan Baez & More (0)
- 08: Bohemian Rhapsody Played on the Largest Pipe Organ in the World (4)
- 08: Coffee College: Everything You Wanted to Know about Coffee Making in One Lecture (0)
- 07: The Unrealized Projects of Frank Lloyd Wright Get Brought to Life with 3D Digital Reconstructions (0)
- 07: Vintage Book & Record Covers Come to Life in a Mesmerizing Animated Video (0)
- 06: A Guided Tour Through All of Vermeer’s Famous Paintings, Narrated by Stephen Fry (2)
- 06: Watch Conservationists Moving & Restoring an Exquisite Ancient Greek Mosaic (0)
- 03: How The Parthenon Marbles Ended Up In The British Museum (2)
- 03: Neil deGrasse Tyson, High School Wrestling Team Captain, Once Invented a Physics-Based Wrestling Move (3)
- 02: YouTube & Arizona State University Team Up to Offer Online Courses for Real College Credits (0)
- 01: What People Named Their Cats in the Middle Ages: Gyb, Mite, Méone, Pangur Bán & More (4)
- 01: The Rise & Fall of Roman Civilization: Every Year Shown in a Timelapse Map Animation (753 BC -1479 AD) (1)
- January 2023 (46)
- 31: The Brooklyn Public Library Gives Every Teenager in the U.S. Free Access to Censored Books (9)
- 31: Why We All Need Subtitles Now (3)
- 31: Adapting the Unfilmable Story of Pinnochio — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #143 (0)
- 30: Medieval Mixed-Gender Fight Club: Behold Images from a 15th-Century Fighting Manual (0)
- 30: When Leonard Bernstein Turned Voltaire’s Candide into an Opera (with Help from Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker & Stephen Sondheim) (1)
- 27: The Two Fridas: An Introduction to Frida Kahlo’s Famous Large-Scale Painting (1939) (0)
- 27: An Immersive, Architectural Tour of New York City’s Iconic Grand Central Terminal (0)
- 26: Stream 385,000 Vintage 78 RPM Records at the Internet Archive: Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Billie Holiday & More (0)
- 26: Liam Neeson Stars as Raymond Chandler’s Legendary Detective Philip Marlowe: Watch the Trailer for the New Film (2)
- 25: When Orson Welles Denounced Elia Kazan as a Traitor for Giving Other Filmmakers’ Names to Joe McCarthy (1982) (0)
- 25: Download 10,000 of the First Recordings of Music Ever Made, Courtesy of the University of California-Santa Barbara (1)
- 24: Bell Telephone Launched a Mobile Phone During the 1940s: Watch Bell’s Film Showing How It Worked (6)
- 24: Robots Are Carving Replicas of the Parthenon Marbles: Could They Help the Real Ancient Sculptures Return to Greece? (1)
- 23: The Only Footage of Mark Twain: The Original & Digitally Restored Films Shot by Thomas Edison (2)
- 23: Watch Classic Performances by Yellow Magic Orchestra, the Japanese Band That Became One of the Most Innovative Electronic Music Acts of All Time (0)
- 20: The Mystery Finally Solved: Why Has Roman Concrete Been So Durable? (0)
- 20: Contribute a Song to WNYC’s Public Song Project & Use Your Creativity to Explore the Public Domain (0)
- 19: A Virtual Tour of Ancient Athens: Fly Over Classical Greek Civilization in All Its Glory (2)
- 19: Stephen King’s 20 Rules for Writers (7)
- 18: ChatGPT Writes a Song in the Style of Nick Cave–and Nick Cave Calls it “a Grotesque Mockery of What It Is to Be Human” (1)
- 18: Behold Colorful Geologic Maps of Mars Released by The United States Geological Survey (0)
- 17: The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery: A New Online Collection Presents All of the Original Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels (0)
- 17: The Haunting Paintings of Francisco Goya: A Deep Dive into His Dark, Late Works (0)
- 16: Benedict Cumberbatch & Ian McKellen Read Epic Letters Written by Kurt Vonnegut (0)
- 16: How Futurists Envisioned the Future in the 1920s: Moving Walkways, Personal Helicopters, Glass-Domed Cities, Dream Recorders & More (0)
- 13: Thanks to Artificial Intelligence, You Can Now Chat with Historical Figures: Shakespeare, Einstein, Austen, Socrates & More (3)
- 13: A Creative Animation Tells the Story of Maximilien Robespierre, One of the Most Influential Figures of the French Revolution (0)
- 12: Watch Jeff Beck (RIP) Smash His Guitar: A Classic Scene from Antonioni’s Blowup (1966) (0)
- 12: An Architect Demystifies the Art Deco Design of the Iconic Chrysler Building (1930) (1)
- 11: Humans First Started Wearing Clothes At Least 300,000 Years Ago, New Research Finds (4)
- 11: A Wooden Artwork That Beautifully Unfolds into a Functional Desk (1)
- 10: The Oldest Known Sentence Written in an Alphabet Has Been Found on a Head-Lice Comb (Circa 1700 BC) (0)
- 10: An Introduction to Hokusai’s Great Wave, One of the Most Recognizable Artworks in the World (0)
- 09: Watch Cher Play All the Major Parts in a 12-Minute Remake of West Side Story (1978) (1)
- 09: Visit the “Cat Islands” of Japan, Where Felines Outnumber Humans (0)
- 06: How to Watch Hundreds of Free Movies on YouTube (5)
- 06: Watch David Letterman’s Complete Interview with Volodymyr Zelenskyy (1)
- 05: How to Make Ancient Mesopotamian Beer: See the 4,000-Year-Old Brewing Method Put to the Test (0)
- 05: The Map of Engineering: A New Animation Shows How All of the Different Fields in Engineering Fit Together (13)
- 04: What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2023: Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Franz Kafka’s Amerika & More (2)
- 04: Joni Mitchell’s Catalog of Albums Now on YouTube: Stream Them Online (0)
- 03: “Weird Al” Yankovic Breaks Down His Most Iconic Tracks: “Eat It,” “Amish Paradise,” “White and Nerdy,” and His Other Hilarious Songs (0)
- 03: The Archives of the Planet: Explore 72,000 Photos Taken a Century Ago to Document Human Cultures Around the World (0)
- 02: How the Ancient Romans Built Their Roads, the Lifelines of Their Vast Empire (9)
- 02: Paul McCartney Explains How Bach Influenced “Blackbird” (0)
- 01: Miley Cyrus & David Byrne Perform David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” on New Year’s Eve (7)
- December 2022 (47)
- 30: Isaac Asimov on How Libraries Can Radically Change Your Life (1971) (0)
- 30: Watch Restored Versions of Classic Fleischer Cartoons on Youtube, Featuring Betty Boop, Koko the Clown & Others (0)
- 29: Pelé’s Great World Cup Goals (RIP) (0)
- 29: The Book of Leaves: A Beautiful Stop Motion Film Featuring 12,000 Pressed Leaves (1)
- 29: Watch You Suck at Cooking, a Hilarious Source for Tasty Recipes and Food Hacks of Questionable Veracity (1)
- 28: How to Make Roman Concrete, One of Human Civilization’s Longest-Lasting Building Materials (73)
- 28: How Fast Food Began: The History of This Thoroughly American (and Now Global) Form of Dining (0)
- 27: American Gothic Explained: How Grant Wood Created His Iconic American Painting (1930) (1)
- 27: The Making of Modern Ukraine: A Free Online Course from Yale University, Featuring 23 Lectures (1)
- 26: How a Lavish 17th-Century Study of Fish Almost Prevented the Publication of Newton’s Principia, One of the Most Important Science Books Ever Written (1)
- 26: Dave Grohl, Jack Black & Greg Kurstin Sing Rush’s “The Spirit Of Radio” for Hanukkah (0)
- 23: Behold! The Very First Christmas Card (1843) (0)
- 23: An Old-Time Radio Yuletide: Hear 20+ Hours of Vintage Christmas Radio Shows (1938-1956) (2)
- 22: Tom Lehrer Puts His Songs into the Public Domain & Makes Them Free to Download (for a Limited Time) (5)
- 22: Mudlarking on the Thames: A Treasure Trove of History Washes Ashore Every Low Tide (1)
- 22: Bruce Thomas, Bassist for The Attractions, Discusses the Art of the Bassline on Nakedly Examined Music (1)
- 21: The Roman Roads and Bridges You Can Still Travel Today (0)
- 21: Watch Björk, Age 11, Read a Christmas Nativity Story on an Icelandic TV Special (1976) (0)
- 20: The History of Western Art in 23 Minutes: From the Prehistoric to the Contemporary (0)
- 20: The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford Coppola (1993) (0)
- 19: NYC’s Iconic Punk Club CBGBs Comes Alive in a Brilliant Short Animation, Using David Godlis’ Photos of Patti Smith, The Ramones & More (0)
- 19: The Avant-Garde Animated Films of Walter Ruttmann, Still Strikingly Fresh a Century Later (1921-1925) (0)
- 16: Behold Beautiful Original Movie Posters for Metropolis from France, Sweden, Germany, Japan & Beyond (0)
- 16: Watch 80 Free Documentaries from Kino Lorber: Includes Films on M. C. Escher, Stanley Kubrick, Hannah Arendt, Hilma af Klint & More (0)
- 15: Hear the Best of Angelo Badalamenti (RIP) from 1986-2017: Features Music from David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks & More (0)
- 15: Hear Neil Gaiman Read A Christmas Carol Just Like Charles Dickens Read It (0)
- 14: The Museum of Wonky English, a Japanese Exhibition Dedicated to Hilarious Mistranslations (0)
- 14: How to Get Dressed & Fight in 14th Century Armor: A Reenactment (0)
- 13: How Will AI Change the World?: A Captivating Animation Explores the Promise & Perils of Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 13: The Disturbing Paintings of Hieronymus Bosch: A Short Introduction (2)
- 12: Behold a 15th-Century Italian Manuscript Featuring Medicinal Plants with Fantastical Human Faces (0)
- 12: How to Make Coffee in the Bialetti Moka Pot: The “Ultimate Techique” (4)
- 09: Beethoven’s Ode to Joy Played With 167 Theremins Placed Inside Matryoshka Dolls in Japan (0)
- 08: 480 Filmmakers Reveal the 100 Greatest Movies in the World (1)
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- 06: The “Shadow” of a Hiroshima Victim, Etched into Stone, Is All That Remains After 1945 Atomic Blast (2)
- 06: How to Read Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A British Museum Curator Explains (0)
- 05: The Untold Story of Disco and Its Black, Latino & LGBTQ Roots (2)
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- 02: The Chemist Alice Ball Pioneered a Treatment for Leprosy in 1915–and Then Others Stole the Credit for It (1)
- 01: Watch Neil Young & Crazy Horse Play & Record the New 15-Minute Track “Chevrolet” for the First Time (2)
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- 01: Succession Star Brian Cox Teaches Hamlet’s Soliloquy to a 2-Year-Old Child (0)
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- 30: See 21 Historic Films by Lumière Brothers, Colorized and Enhanced with Machine Learning (1895-1902) (0)
- 30: Deep Fried Coffee: A Very Disturbing Discovery (1)
- 29: 15-Year-Old Picasso Paints His First Masterpiece, “The First Communion” (0)
- 29: 8th Century Englishwoman Scribbled Her Name & Drew Funny Pictures in a Medieval Manuscript, According to New Cutting-Edge Technology (2)
- 28: Ancient Roman Coins Reveal the Existence of a Forgotten Roman Emperor (1)
- 28: Meet Honey Lantree, the Trailblazing 1960s Female Drummer (1)
- 27: Open Culture is Now on Post (and Mastodon) (0)
- 25: A List of 1,065 Medieval Dog Names: Nosewise, Garlik, Havegoodday & More (2)
- 25: When Salvador Dalí Dressed — and Angrily Demolished — a Department Store Window in New York City (1939) (0)
- 24: William S. Burroughs’ Scathing “Thanksgiving Prayer,” Shot by Gus Van Sant (0)
- 24: The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic (3)
- 23: A Relaxing, ASMR Re-Creation of People Cooking Thanksgiving Dinner in the 1820s (0)
- 23: A Day at the Beach in Biarritz, France: Watch Video Restored & Colorized with AI (1928) (0)
- 22: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal for a Limited Time (0)
- 22: The First Kiss Captured on Film: Behold “The Kiss” Shot by Photography Pioneer Eadweard Muybridge (1887) (1)
- 22: Why Recent Decades All Feel Culturally the Same, and Why Mark Fisher Thought Capitalism Was to Blame (4)
- 21: Banksy Spray Paints Murals in War-Torn Ukraine (0)
- 21: The Story of Akiko Takakura, One of the Last Survivors of the Hiroshima Bombing, Told in a Short Animated Documentary (0)
- 18: Follow Open Culture on Mastodon–the Open Source Alternative to Twitter (0)
- 18: The Isolated Vocal Tracks of the B-52s “Roam”: Enjoy the Angelic Harmonies of Kate Pierson & Cindy Wilson (12)
- 18: Did Psychedelic Mushrooms Appear in Medieval Christian Art?: A Video Essay (0)
- 17: The First Live Performance of Springsteen’s “Jungleland” After Clarence Clemons’ Death, with His Nephew Jake on Sax (July 28, 2012) (0)
- 17: Watch Videos for 10 Songs on Brian Eno’s Brand New Album, FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (1)
- 16: A Tour of Studio Ghibli’s Brand New Theme Park in Japan, Which Re-Creates the Worlds of Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Other Classics (0)
- 16: When the World Got Introduced to the Amazing Compact Disc (CD) in 1982 (1)
- 15: The Virtue of Owning Books You Haven’t Read: Why Umberto Eco Kept an “Antilibrary” (2)
- 15: Vincent van Gogh Visits a Modern Art Gallery & Gets to See His Artistic Legacy: A Touching Scene from Doctor Who (2)
- 14: Joni Mitchell Tells Elton John the Stories Behind Her Iconic Songs: “Both Sides Now,” “Carey” & More (2)
- 14: How to Argue Effectively: Harvard Negotiation Expert Shares Techniques for Arguing Effectively, Especially About Politics (1)
- 11: Behold Illustrations of Every Shakespeare Play Created by Artificial Intelligence (1)
- 11: Celebrate Kurt Vonnegut’s 100 Birthday with a Collection of Songs Based on His Work (2)
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- 10: Cats in Japanese Woodblock Prints: How Japan’s Favorite Animals Came to Star in Its Popular Art (0)
- 10: Your Burning Questions About Coffee Answered by James Hoffmann (0)
- 09: The Fiske Reading Machine: The 1920s Precursor to the Kindle (0)
- 09: An Asbestos-Bound, Fireproof Edition of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) (0)
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- 08: Jim Henson’s Commercials for Wilkins Coffee: 15 Twisted Minutes of Muppet Coffee Ads (1957-1961) (0)
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- 04: The Comiclopedia: An Online Archive of 14,000 Comic Artists, From Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, to Mœbius and Hergé (5)
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- 01: Watch World War II Unfold Day by Day: An Animated Map (1)
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- 31: Watch the First Horror Film, George Méliès’ The Haunted Castle (1896) (0)
- 31: How a Mondrian Painting Has Accidentally Hung Upside-Down for 75 Years (1)
- 31: FAMOUS ARTIST DIES PENNILESS AND ALL ALONE: The Met Museum’s Fascinating Archive of Artists’ Death Notices (0)
- 31: Watch Free Cult Films by Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi & More on the New Kino Cult Streaming Service (2)
- 28: An Introduction to the Painting of Artemisia Gentileschi, the First Woman Admitted to Florence’s Accademia di Arte del Disegno (1593-1653) (1)
- 28: Hear 149 Vintage Halloween Radio Shows from the Golden Age of Radio (0)
- 28: Watch Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil, a Documentary Streaming Free Online (0)
- 27: 200 Bassists Play the Famous Bass Line of Queen & Bowie’s “Under Pressure” (0)
- 27: See Metropolis‘ Scandalous Dance Scene Colorized, Enhanced, and Newly Soundtracked (1)
- 26: What Sex Was Like in Medieval Times?: Historians Look at How People Got It On in the Dark Ages (0)
- 26: Hear Moby Dick Read in Its Entirety by Tilda Swinton, Stephen Fry, John Waters & Many Others (0)
- 25: Discover Nüshu, a 19th-Century Chinese Writing System That Only Women Knew How to Write (1)
- 25: There Are Eight Forms of Intelligence, Not Just One: Which Apply to You? (0)
- 25: The Breaking Bad-O-Verse — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #135 Considers “Better Call Saul” (0)
- 24: The Internet Archive Launches Democracy’s Library, a Free Online Library of 500,000 Documents Supporting Democracy (0)
- 24: Meet Little Amal, the 12-Foot Puppet of a 10-Year-Old Syrian Girl, Who Has Been Touring the World (0)
- 21: How Did They Build the Great Pyramid of Giza?: An Animated Introduction (6)
- 21: The French Designed a Fake Replica of Paris to Fool German Bombers During World War I (0)
- 20: Futurist Makes Weirdly Accurate Predictions in 1922 About What the World Will Look Like in 2022: Wireless Telephones, 8-Hour Flights to Europe & More (0)
- 20: Hear a Great Radio Documentary on William S. Burroughs Narrated by Iggy Pop (0)
- 19: What the Rosetta Stone Actually Says (0)
- 19: Why Quentin Tarantino Will Only Make 10 Movies (0)
- 19: Unpopular Music Fandom — Musicians and Philosophers Discuss on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #134 (0)
- 18: DALL-E, the New AI Art Generator, Is Now Open for Everyone to Use (5)
- 18: 10,000 Vintage Recipe Books Are Now Digitized in The Internet Archive’s Cookbook & Home Economics Collection (1)
- 17: Meet the Physicist Who Has Created 1600+ Wikipedia Entries for Important Female & Minority Scientists (0)
- 17: What Happens When Mortals Try to Drink Winston Churchill’s Daily Intake of Alcohol (20)
- 14: How Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” Went from 80s Pop Smash to Bastion of Internet Culture: A Short Documentary (0)
- 14: Winston Churchill Goes Backward Down a Water Slide & Loses His Trunks (1934) (4)
- 13: Behold the World’s Oldest Animation Made on a Vase in Iran 5,200 Years Ago (1)
- 13: Simone de Beauvoir Speaks on American TV (in English) About Feminism, Abortion & More (1976) (0)
- 12: Watch Vintage Videos Capturing Life in Japan from the 1960s Through Today (0)
- 11: What’s the Best Audio Book You’ve Ever “Read”? (7)
- 11: Download The Harvard Classics as Free eBooks: A “Portable University” Created in 1909 (1)
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- 10: John Oliver’s Show on World-Class Art Museums & Their Looted Art: Watch It Free Online (2)
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- 07: Behold a 21st-Century Medieval Castle Being Built with Only Tools & Materials from the Middle Ages (3)
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- 05: Why Goya Made His Haunting “Black Paintings” at the End of His Life (1)
- 04: Carl Sagan Issues a Chilling Warning to America in His Last Interview (1996) (1)
- 04: M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity: Watch the Free Art Documentary Online (with Voicing from Stephen Fry) (0)
- 03: Cats in Medieval Manuscripts & Paintings (0)
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- 30: How Writing Has Spread Across the World, from 3000 BC to This Year: An Animated Map (2)
- 30: What It’s Like to Work in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Office Building (2)
- 29: Behold the Medieval Wound Man: The Poor Soul Who Illustrated the Injuries a Person Might Receive Through War, Accident or Disease (0)
- 29: Meet the Hyperpolyglots, the People Who Can Mysteriously Speak Up to 32 Different Languages (1)
- 29: Why Predator — A Discussion of the Film Franchise on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #133 (0)
- 28: When Marlon Brando Refused the Oscar for His Role in The Godfather to Support the Rights of Native Americans (1973) (0)
- 28: The Most Distant Places Visited by the Romans: Africa, Scandinavia, China, India, Arabia & Other Far-Flung Lands (5)
- 27: Enter an Archive of 7,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online (7)
- 27: The Biggest Mistakes in Mapmaking History (0)
- 26: Doctors in Brussels Can Now Prescribe Museum Visits as Treatments for Stress, Anxiety & Depression (1)
- 26: How the World Trade Center Was Rebuilt: A Visual Exploration of a 20-Year Project (1)
- 23: Why Mapmakers Once Thought California Was an Island (1)
- 23: The Art of Translating Hamilton into German: “So Kribbeln Schmetterlinge, Wenn Sie Starten” (0)
- 22: Revisit Louise Brooks’ Most Iconic Role in the Too-Sexy-for-Weimar Silent Film Pandora’s Box (1928) (1)
- 22: Goodbye to the Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo’s Strangest and Most Utopian Apartment Building (0)
- 21: Never Too Small: Architects Give Tours of Tiny Homes in Paris, Melbourne, Milan, Hong Kong & Beyond (0)
- 21: A Tour of All the Pizza Styles You Can Eat in the United States (and the History Behind Your Favorite Slices) (2)
- 20: Beyond the Visible: Hilma Af Klint: Watch a Documentary on the Swedish Abstract Painter Free Online (0)
- 20: Getting Dressed Over the Centuries: 35 Videos Show How Women & Men Put on Clothes During Ancient, Medieval & Modern Times (0)
- 20: Historian Timothy Snyder Presents 20 Lessons for Defending Democracy Against Tyranny in a New Video Series (0)
- 19: 5 Ways to Build an Alzheimer’s-Resistant Brain: Neuroscientist Lisa Genova Explains (0)
- 19: Sally Schmitt, the Creator of the French Laundry & Unsung Hero of California Cuisine, Gets Her Due in a Poignant, Short Documentary (2)
- 17: Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing In The Name” Performed By the North Korean Military Chorus : A Clever Fake (0)
- 16: Architect Breaks Down Five of the Most Iconic New York City Apartments (0)
- 16: The Evolution of the Electric Guitar: An Introduction to Every Major Variety of the Instrument That Made Rock-and-Roll (0)
- 15: The Clock That Changed the World: How John Harrison’s Portable Clock Revolutionized Sea Navigation in the 18th Century (1)
- 15: Watch Opera Legend Marian Anderson’s Historic Performance on the Steps of the Lincoln Memorial (1939) (0)
- 15: When Is a Joke “Too Soon”? — Comedians Discuss on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #132 (1)
- 14: How The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Invented Psychological Horror Film & Brought Expressionism to the Screen (1920) (0)
- 14: RIP Jean-Luc Godard: Watch the French New Wave Icon Explain His Contrarian Worldview Back in the 1960s (0)
- 13: The Hidden History of “Hand Talk,” the Native American Sign Language That Predated ASL by Centuries (3)
- 13: The Beauty & Ingenuity of the Pantheon, Ancient Rome’s Best-Preserved Monument: An Introduction (0)
- 12: When John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” Scandalized the Art World in 1884 (0)
- 12: The First Transit Map: a Close Look at the Subway-Style Tabula Peutingeriana of the 5th-Century Roman Empire (0)
- 10: Get the First Biography of Hilma af Klint at a 40% Discount (for a Limited Time) (0)
- 09: Hear Queen Elizabeth II Give Her Very First Speech to the British People, During World War II (1940) (1)
- 09: When Sliced Bread Got Banned During World War II (0)
- 08: See the First 8K Footage of the Titanic, the Highest-Quality Video of the Shipwreck Yet (1)
- 08: When Mikhail Gorbachev, the Last Soviet Leader, Starred in a Pizza Hut Commercial (1998) (0)
- 07: An AI-Generated Painting Won First Prize at a State Fair & Sparked a Debate About the Essence of Art (0)
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- 06: Two Women in Their 90s Recall Their Teenage Years in Victorian 1890s London (4)
- 06: The Improbable Invention of Chinese Typewriters & Computer Keyboards: Three Videos Tell the Techno-Cultural Story (0)
- 05: All of the Different Kinds of Acoustic Guitars, and the Different Woods They’re Made Of: The Ultimate Acoustic Guitar Guide (1)
- 02: Winnie the Pooh Went Into the Public Domain, and Someone Already Turned the Story Into a Slasher Film: Watch the Trailer for Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey (4)
- 02: Kino Lorber Puts Online 50 Free Films: Watch Classics by Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Taika Waititi & Other Major Filmmakers (0)
- 02: Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert Streaming Live from Wembley Stadium: Watch It Online (0)
- 01: What Happens When Artificial Intelligence Creates Images to Match the Lyrics of Iconic Songs: David Bowie’s “Starman,” Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”, ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky” & More (4)
- 01: Elton John Presents 14 of His Iconic Looks: From 1968 to Now (0)
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- 31: Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy on Finding Meaning in Old Age (6)
- 31: The Atomic Café: The Cult Classic Documentary Made Entirely Out of Nuclear Weapons Propaganda from the Cold War (1982) (0)
- 30: Christopher Hitchens’ Final Interview: Hear the Newly-Released Uncut Conversation with Richard Dawkins (0)
- 30: Dolly Parton Reads Free Bedtime Stories to Kids: Watch Readings from Goodnight with Dolly (0)
- 29: How Cinema Inspired Edward Hopper’s Great Paintings, and How Edward Hopper Inspired Great Filmmakers (1)
- 29: Watch a Jaw-Dropping Visualization of John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” Solo (4)
- 29: Jordan Peele as Auteur of the Film Nope — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #131 (1)
- 26: Vienna’s Albertina Museum Puts 150,000 Digitized Artworks Into the Public Domain: Klimt, Munch, Dürer, and More (0)
- 26: Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years Ago (5)
- 25: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth: Watch the Six-Part Series with Bill Moyers (1988) (4)
- 25: The Only Written Eye-Witness Account of Pompeii’s Destruction: Hear Pliny the Younger’s Letters on the Mount Vesuvius Eruption (3)
- 24: Every Style of Beer Explained: An Expert Breaks Down 100 Types of Beer, from Malty Lagers, to London Brown Ales, to Bock Beer (2)
- 24: Why 80s British Pop Queen Kate Bush Owns 2022 (0)
- 23: How a Dutch “Dementia Village” Improves Quality of Life with Intentional Design (2)
- 23: Pink Lady and Jeff: Japan’s Biggest Pop Musicians Star in One of America’s Worst-Reviewed TV Shows (1980) (2)
- 22: The Brooklyn Public Library Gives Every Teenager in the U.S. Free Access to Books Getting Censored by American Schools (10)
- 22: How Salman Rushdie Has Lived and Written Under the Threat of Death: a Free Documentary (0)
- 19: What Made Better Call Saul a Master Class in Visual Storytelling: A Video Essay (0)
- 19: Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Has Given Away 186 Million Free Books to Kids, Boosting Literacy Worldwide (4)
- 18: “When We All Have Pocket Telephones”: A 1920s Comic Accurately Predicts Our Cellphone-Dominated Lives (1)
- 18: Texas School Board Bans Illustrated Edition of The Diary of Anne Frank (5)
- 17: The Brilliantly Nightmarish Art & Troubled Life of Painter Francis Bacon (1)
- 17: Orson Welles Reads the Abolitionist John Brown’s Final Speech After Being Sentenced to Death (0)
- 17: Behold a Secret Gallery of Art Created Using Discarded Gum on London’s Millennium Bridge (0)
- 16: When Christopher Hitchens Vigilantly Defended Salman Rushdie After the Fatwah: “It Was a Matter of Everything I Hated Versus Everything I Loved” (0)
- 16: What Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unusual Windows Tell Us About His Architectural Genius (2)
- 15: The Oakland Public Library Puts Online a Collection of Items Forgotten in Library Books: Love Notes, Doodles & More (1)
- 15: How a Simple, Bauhaus-Designed Chair Ended Up Everywhere Over the Past 100 Years (1)
- 12: What Does a $275,000 Classical Guitar Sound Like? (1)
- 12: Olivia Newton-John (RIP) Reunites with Grease Co-Star John Travolta to Sing “You’re The One That I Want” (2002) (3)
- 11: All the Music Played on MTV’s 120 Minutes: A 2,500-Video Youtube Playlist (0)
- 11: Discover The Key of Hell, an Illustrated 18th-Century Guide to Black Magic (1775) (2)
- 10: How German Artist John Heartfield Pioneered the Use of Art as a Political Weapon, and Took on Hitler (0)
- 10: The Photo That Triggered China’s Disastrous Cultural Revolution (1966) (3)
- 10: Oscar-Winner CODA and Deaf Representation in Film — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #130 (0)
- 09: When Helen Keller Met Charlie Chaplin and Taught Him Sign Language (1919) (0)
- 09: Damien Hirst’s NFT Experiment Comes to an End: How Many Buyers Chose Digital Tokens Over Physical Artworks? (1)
- 08: Three Female Artists Who Helped Create Abstract Expressionism: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning & Helen Frankenthaler. (2)
- 08: 13 Glorious Minutes of The Ramones in Kansas City, Captured on a Super-8 Camera (1978) (2)
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- 05: What Americans Ate for Dessert 200 Years Ago: Watch Re-Creations of Original Recipes (0)
- 05: Watch the Sinking of the Lusitania Animated in Real Time (1915) (0)
- 04: What a Disney Version of A Clockwork Orange Would Look Like (0)
- 04: Watch the Full Set of Joni Mitchell’s Amazing Comeback Performance at the Newport Folk Festival (1)
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- 02: The Women of the Bauhaus: See Hip, Avant-Garde Photographs of Female Students & Instructors at the Famous Art School (1)
- 02: The Last Cigarette Commercial Ever Aired on American TV (1971) (1)
- 01: As Star Trek‘s Lieutenant Uhura, Nichelle Nichols (RIP) Starred in “TV’s First Interracial Kiss” in 1968 (0)
- 01: Watch a Complete Mini-Series Adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (0)
- 01: The Inventive Artwork of Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett (2)
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- 29: Scenes from The Wizard of Oz Remastered in Brilliant 4K Detail: Behold the Work of a Creative YouTuber (0)
- 29: Cover Songs: Philosophy and Taxonomy on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #129 (0)
- 28: How Joni Mitchell Learned to Play Guitar Again After a 2015 Brain Aneurysm–and Made It Back to the Newport Folk Festival (1)
- 28: Visit Great Cities in the 1920s in Restored Color Film: New York City, London, Berlin, Paris, Venice & More (0)
- 27: Watch 70+ Soviet Films Free Online, Courtesy of Mosfilm, the Hollywood of the Soviet Union (5)
- 27: Behold! A Medieval Graphic Novel Carved on an 14th Century Ivory Box (0)
- 26: Watch Hundreds of Polish Films Free Online: Feature Films, Documentaries, Animations & More (0)
- 26: The Book of St Albans, One of the Finest Medieval Manuscripts, Gets Digitized and Put Online (2)
- 25: Joni Mitchell Sings “Both Sides Now” at the Newport Folk Festival: Watch Clips from Her First Full Concert Since 2002 (0)
- 25: When Erik Satie Took a Picture of Debussy & Stravinsky (June 1910) (3)
- 25: Behold a Book of Color Shades Depicted with Feathers (Circa 1915) (0)
- 24: Watch Restored Video of the Smashing Pumpkins’ First Televised Performance (1988) (0)
- 22: Is There Life After Death?: Michio Kaku, Bill Nye, Sam Harris & More Explore One of Life’s Biggest Questions (0)
- 22: Free Documentaries from Spain Let You Watch the Traditional Making of Wine, Cheese, Churros, Honey & More (0)
- 21: Give Duke Ellington the Pulitzer Prize He Was Denied in 1965 (2)
- 21: The First Surviving Photograph of the Moon (1840) (1)
- 20: The Birdsong Project Features 220 Musicians, Actors, Artists & Writers Paying Tribute to Birds: Watch Performances by Yo-Yo Ma, Elvis Costello and Beck (0)
- 20: A Virtual Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lost Japanese Masterpiece, the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo (4)
- 19: Hear a 19-Year-Old Prince Crushing It on Every Instrument in an Early Jam Session (1977) (24)
- 19: Japanese Restaurants Show You How to Make Traditional Dishes in Meditative Videos: Soba, Tempura, Udon & More (0)
- 18: Brian Eno’s Ambient Album Music for Airports Performed by Musicians in an Airport (0)
- 18: Never-Seen Vincent Van Gogh Self-Portrait Discovered Behind an Earlier Painting (0)
- 15: 30,000 Photographs of Black History & Culture Are Available Online in a New Getty Images Archive (0)
- 15: Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935) (1)
- 14: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Restores the Original Colors to Ancient Statues (9)
- 14: The Homes of 2020 Imagined in 1989: Wireless Audio Systems, Smart Heating, Windows That Turn Into TVs & More (0)
- 14: “Downton Abbey” and the Allure of Historical Drama — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #127 (0)
- 13: John Waters’ Comical & Inspiring Commencement Speech: “You Too Can Fail Upwards” (2022) (0)
- 13: The First Photographs Taken by the Webb Telescope: See Faraway Galaxies & Nebulae in Unprecedented Detail (0)
- 12: The German Cast of Hamilton Sings the Title Track, “Alexander Hamilton” in German (0)
- 12: What Americans Ate for Breakfast & Dinner 200 Years Ago: Watch Re-Creations of Original Recipes (7)
- 12: Listen to Earth.fm, a Free Archive of Natural Soundscapes That Can Re-Connect You with Nature & Improve Your Wellbeing (2)
- 11: Watch the Titanic Sink in This Real-Time 3D Animation (0)
- 11: Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Nick Cave’s Beautiful Letter About Grief (1)
- 10: Watch an 8-Part Film Adaptation of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina Free Online (2)
- 08: Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964: Artificial Intelligence, Instantaneous Global Communication, Remote Work, Singularity & More (1)
- 08: An Introduction to the Voynich Manuscript, the World’s Most Mysterious Book (4)
- 07: The Earliest Known Footage of New Orleans Discovered: See a Mardi Gras Parade in 1898 (1)
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- 06: Why You Should Read The Handmaid’s Tale: A Timely Animated Introduction (2)
- 06: When Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a Doghouse, His Smallest Architectural Creation (1956) (0)
- 05: Watch the Hugely-Ambitious Soviet Film Adaptation of War and Peace Free Online (1966-67) (0)
- 05: Mama Cass and John Denver Sing a Lovely Duet of “Leaving On a Jet Plane” (1972) (1)
- 04: Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944) (11)
- 04: The Timeline of World War II (Month by Month) Told With Scenes Made from Dozens of WWII Movies (1)
- 01: The Young Punk Rockers The Linda Lindas Play a Tiny Desk Concert Gig (at the Public Library) (0)
- 01: Sir Ben Kingsley Reads a Letter Written by Gandhi to Hitler (in the Voice of Mahatma Gandhi) (0)
- 01: Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro Is Getting Adapted for the Stage by The Royal Shakespeare Company & Jim Henson’s Creature Shop (0)
- June 2022 (53)
- 30: Take Graphic Design Courses to Launch Your Career as a Graphic Designer, Video Game Designer, UI Designer & More (0)
- 30: How to Get into a Creative “Flow State”: A Short Masterclass (2)
- 30: Bars, Beer & Wine in Ancient Rome: An Introduction to Roman Nightlife and Spirits (0)
- 29: Free Online: Watch Stalker, Solaris, Mirror, and Other Masterworks by Soviet Auteur Andrei Tarkovsky (0)
- 29: What Makes Vermeer’s The Milkmaid a Masterpiece?: A Video Introduction (0)
- 28: Why 99% Of Smithsonian’s Specimens Are Hidden In High-Security (1)
- 28: Free: Watch Battleship Potemkin and Other Films by Sergei Eisenstein, the Revolutionary Soviet Filmmaker (0)
- 27: Marie Curie’s Ph.D. Thesis on Radioactivity–Which Made Her the First Woman in France to Receive a Doctoral Degree in Physics (3)
- 27: Lou Reed Album With Demos of Velvet Underground Classics Getting Released: Hear an Early Version of “I’m Waiting for the Man” (1)
- 25: Aldous Huxley to George Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949) (3)
- 24: The Only Surviving Manuscript of John Milton’s Paradise Lost Gets Published in Book Form for the First Time (0)
- 24: Color Footage of the Liberation of Paris, Shot by Hollywood Director George Stevens (1944) (0)
- 24: Karl Marx & the Flaws of Capitalism: Lex Fridman Talks with Professor Richard Wolff (5)
- 23: The Oldest House in New York City: Meet the Wyckoff House (1652) (0)
- 23: Rapper Post Malone Performs a 15-Song Set of Nirvana Songs, Paying Tribute to Kurt Cobain (0)
- 22: Computer Scientist Andrew Ng Presents a New Series of Machine Learning Courses–an Updated Version of the Popular Course Taken by 5 Million Students
- 22: The Otherworldly Art of William Blake: An Introduction to the Visionary Poet and Painter (0)
- 22: What Is the House of the Rising Sun?: An Introduction to the Origins of the Classic Song
- 21: The Biology of Bonsai Trees: The Science Behind the Traditional Japanese Art Form
- 21: Hear a Neuroscientist-Curated 712-Track Playlist of Music that Causes Frisson, or Musical Chills
- 20: George Harrison Breaks Down Abbey Road Track-By-Track on the Day of Its Release (September 26, 1969) (5)
- 20: An Introduction to Stanislaw Lem, the Great Polish Sci-Fi Writer, by Jonathan Lethem (0)
- 17: The Revolutionary Paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Video Essay (0)
- 17: Discover DALL-E, the Artificial Intelligence Artist That Lets You Create Surreal Artwork (0)
- 17: Ziggy Stardust Turns 50: Celebrate David Bowie’s Signature Character with a Newly Released Version of “Starman” (0)
- 16: How Wealthy Women (Like the Mona Lisa) Got Dressed in Renaissance Florence (0)
- 16: A Special New, Two-Volume Collection of Philip K. Dick Stories Comes Illustrated by 24 Different Artists (0)
- 15: Danny Boyle’s New Sex Pistols Series Tells the Story of Punk Rock in the UK (0)
- 15: Ambient Kyoto: Brian Eno Stages His First Large-Scale Exhibition in Japan (1)
- 14: Revisit Vintage Issues of Astounding Stories, the 1930s Magazine that Gave Rise to Science Fiction as We Know It (1)
- 14: Watch Two Courses by Beloved Yale Historian John Merriman (RIP): “France Since 1871” and “European Civilization, 1648 to 1945” (0)
- 13: Julia Child Shows Fred Rogers How to Make a Quick & Delicious Pasta Dish (1974) (0)
- 13: Sun Tzu’s The Art of War: An Animated Chapter-by-Chapter Breakdown of the Ancient Chinese Treatise (0)
- 12: Enter the Franz Kafka Caption Contest for a Chance to Win a New Book of the Author’s Drawings (Until June 13) (0)
- 10: Werner Herzog’s New Novel, The Twilight World, Tells the Story of the WWII Japanese Soldier Who Famously Refused to Surrender (0)
- 10: What Happened to the Missing Half of the Roman Colosseum? (7)
- 09: Watch the First Movie Ever Streamed on the Net: Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991) (0)
- 09: The History of the Byzantine Empire (or East Roman Empire): An Animated Timeline Covering 1,100 Years of History (1)
- 08: When David Bowie & Brian Eno Made a Twin Peaks-Inspired Album, Outside (1995) (4)
- 08: Remembering Dave Smith (RIP), the Father of MIDI & the Creator of the 80s’ Most Beloved Synthesizer, the Prophet-5 (0)
- 07: Kate Bush Enjoys a (Long-Overdue) Revival, Sparked by Season 4 of Stranger Things (0)
- 07: Watch Ella Fitzgerald Put Her Extraordinary Vocal Agility on Display, in a Live Rendition of “Summertime” (1968) (0)
- 06: The Vincent van Gogh “Starry Night” LEGO Set Is Now Available: It’s Created in Collaboration with MoMA (1)
- 06: Ray Liotta (RIP) Talks About His Most Memorable Performances: Something Wild, Goodfellas, Field of Dreams, and More (0)
- 06: Susan Sontag’s Commencement Address Advice: “Pay Attention. It Connects You With Others. It Makes You Eager. Stay Eager.” (0)
- 03: Play “Artle,” an Art History Version of Wordle: A New Game from the National Gallery of Art (1)
- 03: 1,000 Musicians Perform “My Hero” in a Moving Tribute to Foo Fighters’ Drummer Taylor Hawkins (1)
- 03: What Is Batman? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #124 Debates the Character, the Legacy, and the New Film (0)
- 02: Dying from Overwork: Disturbing Looks Inside Japan’s Karoshi and China’s “996” Work System (1)
- 02: The “All of Bach” Project Is Making Performances of Every Bach Piece Available Online: Watch 346 High-Quality Recordings (2)
- 02: Machiavelli’s The Prince Explained in an Illustrated Film (0)
- 01: Discover the Dystopian Surrealist Art of Polish Painter & Photographer Zdzisław Beksiński (2)
- 01: How the Byzantine Empire Rose, Fell, and Created the Glorious Hagia Sophia: A History in Ten Animated Minutes (1)
- May 2022 (58)
- 31: The Greatest Hits of Alan Watts: Stream a Carefully-Curated Collection of Alan Watts Wisdom (1)
- 31: Italian Advice on How to Live the Good Life: Cigarettes, Tomatoes, and Other Picturesque Small Pleasures (1)
- 30: Haruki Murakami Jazz Mixes: Hear Playlists of Jazz Pieces Namechecked in Norwegian Wood and 1Q84 (2)
- 30: How Did Cartographers Create World Maps before Airplanes and Satellites? An Introduction (1)
- 27: “Oye Como Va” Played by Carlos Santana & Musicians Around the World (0)
- 27: Great Mixtapes of 1970s Japanese Jazz: 4 Hours of Funky, Groovy, Fusion-y Music (1)
- 27: Bach Played Beautifully on the Baroque Lute, by Preeminent Lutenist Evangelina Mascardi (3)
- 26: Margaret Atwood Releases an Unburnable Edition of The Handmaid’s Tale, to Support Freedom of Expression (4)
- 26: Terry Gilliam Visits a Video Store & Talks About His Favorite Movies and Actors (0)
- 25: A First Glimpse of Moonage Daydream, the New “Immersive Cinematic Experience” David Bowie Film (1)
- 25: How Much Would It Cost to Build the Colosseum Today? (0)
- 25: How Korean Things Are Made: Watch Mesmerizing Videos Showing the Making of Traditional Clothes, Teapots, Buddhist Instruments & More (0)
- 24: Behold the Augsburg Book of Miracles, a Brilliantly-Illuminated Manuscript of Supernatural Phenomena from Renaissance Germany (1)
- 24: Martin Scorsese Foundation Launches Virtual Screening Room, Letting You Watch Restored Classic Films for Free (2)
- 23: The Scream Explained: What’s Really Happening in Edvard Munch’s World-Famous Painting (0)
- 23: Watch Hannah Arendt’s Final Interview (1973) (0)
- 20: R.I.P. Vangelis: The Composer Who Created the Future Noir Soundtrack for Blade Runner Dies at 79 (1)
- 20: Jean-Paul Sartre & Albert Camus: Their Friendship and the Bitter Feud That Ended It (2)
- 19: William Blake: The Remarkable Printing Process of the English Poet, Artist & Visionary (1)
- 19: Meet the Variophone, the Early Soviet Synthesizer that Made Music with a Film Projector (1932) (0)
- 19: David Cronenberg Visits a Video Store & Talks About His Favorite Movies (0)
- 18: Hans Zimmer Was in the First-Ever Video Aired on MTV, The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” (2)
- 18: What’s It Like Drumming For Prince?: Drummer Hannah Welton Describes the Genius of His Musicianship (1)
- 18: The Animated Map of Quantum Computing: A Visual Introduction to the Future of Computing (2)
- 17: An Architect Breaks Down the Design Details of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel (0)
- 17: The Rolling Stones Play a Gig in Communist Warsaw and a Riot Ensues (1967) (0)
- 16: The White House’s Forgotten 1970s Vinyl Record Collection: Talking Heads, Sex Pistols, Captain Beefheart, Donna Summer & More (18)
- 16: Helen Keller Was a “Firebrand” Socialist (or How History Whitewashed Her Political Life) (2)
- 16: How Hans Zimmer Created the Otherworldly Soundtrack for Dune (0)
- 13: How to Enter a ‘Flow State’ on Command: Peak Performance Mind Hack Explained in 7 Minutes (7)
- 13: This Is Spinal Tap Will Get a Sequel 40 Years Later, Reuniting Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest & Harry Shearer (1)
- 13: Google Unveils a Digital Marketing & E-Commerce Certificate: 7 Courses Will Help Prepare Students for an Entry-Level Job in 6 Months (1)
- 12: Quentin Tarantino Names His 20 Favorite Movies, Covering Two Decades (4)
- 12: The Forgotten Women of Surrealism: A Magical, Short Animated Film (2)
- 11: Real Interviews with People Who Lived in the 1800s (0)
- 11: When Orson Welles Became a Speech & Joke Writer for Franklin Delano Roosevelt (0)
- 10: Philosopher Bertrand Russell Talks About the Time When His Grandfather Met Napoleon (1)
- 10: Two Decades of Fire Island DJ Sets Get Unearthed, Digitized & Put Online: Stream 232 Mixtapes Online (1979-1999) (1)
- 10: Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke Spent Years Debating How to Depict the Aliens in 2001: A Space Odyssey; Carl Sagan Provided the Answer: Don’t Depict Them at All (1)
- 09: The Polish Artist Stanisław Witkiewicz Made Portraits While On Different Psychoactive Drugs, and Noted the Drugs on Each Painting (14)
- 09: Hayao Miyazaki, The Mind of a Master: A Thoughtful Video Essay Reveals the Driving Forces Behind the Animator’s Incredible Body of Work (0)
- 08: Finding Purpose & Meaning In Life: Living for What Matters Most–A Free Online Course from the University of Michigan (0)
- 08: U2’s Bono & the Edge Give Surprise Concert in Kyiv Metro/Bomb Shelter: “Stand by Me,” “Angel of Harlem,” and “With or Without You” (0)
- 06: Grandma Moses Started Painting Seriously at Age 77, and Soon Became a Famous American Artist (1)
- 06: Self-Encounter: The 10-Episode TV Show That Introduced Existentialism to Americans in 1961 (0)
- 06: MasterClass Is Offering Up to 35% Off an Annual Subscription for Mother’s Day (Through May 8) (0)
- 06: On Art Speigelman’s Maus: Should Comics Expose Kids to the World’s Horrors? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #122 (0)
- 05: The Ghosts and Monsters of Hokusai: See the Famed Woodblock Artist’s Fearsome & Amusing Visions of Strange Apparitions (0)
- 05: Ray Dalio Is Giving Away Free Copies of His New Book Principles for Dealing with the Changing World to High School & College Teachers and Their Students (0)
- 05: The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea Presents a Bass Lesson, and Essential Advice That Every Bass Player Should Know (2)
- 04: How Postwar Italian Cinema Created La Dolce Vita and Then the Paparazzi (0)
- 04: Footage of Flappers from 1929 Restored & Colorized with AI (0)
- 03: How People Imagined in 1948 What Cars Would Look Like in the Future (0)
- 03: The Last Morning in Pompeii & The Night Pompeii Died: A New Video Series Explores the End of the Doomed Roman City (0)
- 03: David Byrne’s New Illustrated Book Playfully Presents A History of the World (in Dingbats) (1)
- 02: Experience Seinfeld’s Famous “Soup Nazi” Scenes With & Without Laugh Tracks (4)
- 02: Watch a New Animation of Richard Feynman’s Ode to the Wonder of Life, with Music by Yo-Yo Ma (0)
- 02: A Creative Animation Documents What Happened When a 1970s Self-Help Seminar Turned Into a Nightmare (NSFW) (0)
- April 2022 (57)
- 30: Revisiting the Music of the Pioneering German Composer Klaus Schulze (RIP), the “Godfather of Techno,” Ambient, German Experimental Psych Rock & More (3)
- 30: Watch Andrei Tarkovsky’s Films Free Online: Stalker, The Mirror & Andrei Rublev (1)
- 29: Coca-Cola Was Originally Sold as an Intellectual Stimulant & Medicine: The Unlikely Story of the Iconic Soft Drink’s Invention (0)
- 29: Hear The Beatles’ Abbey Road with Only Paul McCartney’s Bass: You Won’t Believe How Good It Sounds (13)
- 29: Watch Sir Ian McKellen’s 1979 Master Class on Macbeth’s Final Monologue (0)
- 28: Dracula Daily: Get the Classic Novel Dracula Delivered to Your Email Inbox, in Small Chunks (1)
- 28: Jon Kabat-Zinn Presents an Introduction to Mindfulness (and Explains Why Our Lives Just Might Depend on It) (0)
- 28: An Online Archive of Beautiful, Early 20th Century Japanese Postcards (0)
- 27: Revisit Morphine, the 90s Power Trio Who Played the Two-String Bass, Saxophone & Drums (2)
- 27: A Whirlwind Architectural Tour of the New York Public Library–“Hidden Details” and All (0)
- 27: Why Do Oreos Never Come Apart Evenly?: MIT Researchers Build an “Oreometer” to Find the Answer (0)
- 27: Frank Lloyd Wright: America’s Greatest Architect? –A Free Streaming Documentary (0)
- 26: Stunningly Elaborate Ottoman Calligraphy Drawn on Dried Leaves (0)
- 26: Why Does This Lady Have a Fly on Her Head?: A Curious Look at a 15th-Century Portrait (1)
- 25: How Thomas Edison & Henry Ford Envisioned a Low-Priced Electric Vehicle in 1914, Almost Changing the Direction of Automobile History (0)
- 25: The History of Birth Control: From Alligator Dung to The Pill (0)
- 24: A Master List of 1,700 Free Courses From Top Universities: A Lifetime of Learning on One Page (11)
- 22: Explore a Big Archive of Vintage Early Comics: 1700-1929 (0)
- 22: The Sistine Chapel: A $22,000 Art-Book Collection Features Remarkable High-Resolution Views of the Murals of Michelangelo, Botticelli & Other Renaissance Masters (0)
- 21: The History of Iron Maiden: A Documentary Streaming Free Online (0)
- 21: 100-Year-Old Music Recordings Can Now Be Heard for the First Time, Thanks to New Digital Technology (0)
- 21: The Woman Who Theorized Color: An Introduction to Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808) (0)
- 21: The Efficacy of Protest Songs — Four Songwriters Discuss on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #121 (1)
- 20: The Birth of the Blues Brothers: How Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi Started Introducing a New Generation to the Blues (0)
- 20: What Great Archaeological Sites Used To Actually Look Like: Machu Picchu, the Colossus of Rhodes, Hadrian’s Wall & More in All Their Glory (0)
- 19: In 1968, Stanley Kubrick Makes Predictions for 2001: Humanity Will Conquer Old Age, Watch 3D TV & Learn German in 20 Minutes (0)
- 19: Behold 3D Recreations of Pompeii’s Lavish Homes–As They Existed Before the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (2)
- 19: Discover 18 Underground Bands From Ukraine (0)
- 19: Draw Along with Beloved Cartoonist & Educator Lynda Barry: Free Drawing Exercises Online (0)
- 18: The New York Public Library Provides Free Online Access to Banned Books: Catcher in the Rye, Stamped & More (1)
- 18: The Library of Esoterica: Taschen’s Visual History of Tarot, Astrology & Witchcraft (0)
- 15: How France Hid the Mona Lisa & Other Louvre Masterpieces During World War II (2)
- 15: Ergonomics Experts Explain How to Set Up Your Desk (0)
- 14: Make Your Own Medieval Memes with a New Tool from the Dutch National Library (0)
- 14: Watch Stevie Wonder’s Amazing Drum Solo, and See Why He May Be the “Greatest Drummer of Our Time” (15)
- 13: If Fritz Lang’s Iconic Film Metropolis Had a Kraftwerk Soundtrack (5)
- 13: How Did Roman Aqueducts Work?: The Most Impressive Achievement of Ancient Rome’s Infrastructure, Explained (1)
- 13: “Europe’s Big Lie About Ukraine,” According to Stephen Fry (2)
- 12: Watch a Local TV Station Switch From Black & White to Color for First Time (1967) (0)
- 12: Why Algorithms Are Called Algorithms, and How It All Goes Back to the Medieval Persian Mathematician Muhammad al-Khwarizmi (32)
- 11: How Ukraine’s Works of Art Are Being Saved in Wartime–Using the Lessons of World War II (0)
- 11: Mark Knopfler Shows How to Play His Fingerpicking Guitar Style (1)
- 08: Pink Floyd Releases Its First New Song in 28 Years to Help Support Ukraine (0)
- 08: The Rembrandt Book Bracelet: Behold a Functional Bracelet Featuring 1400 Rembrandt Drawings (0)
- 07: Why Dutch & Japanese Cities Are Insanely Well Designed (and American Cities Are Terribly Designed) (2)
- 07: What Did People Do Before the Invention of Eyeglasses? (1)
- 06: Jim Morrison Accurately Predicts the Future of Electronic Music in 1969 (1)
- 06: Flea Rocks “The Star Spangled Banner” on the Bass (1)
- 06: The Story of Googie Architecture, the Iconic Architectural Style of Los Angeles (1)
- 05: The Little Prince: Footage Gets Unearthed Of the Pop Star at Age 11 (0)
- 05: All Espresso Drinks Explained: Cappuccino, Latte, Macchiato & Beyond (2)
- 04: How to Wear a Toga the Official Ancient Roman Way (0)
- 04: The Depths of Wikipedia: Enjoy a Compendium of the Online Encyclopedia’s Most Bizarre Pages (0)
- 04: A Survival Guide to the Biblical Apocalypse (0)
- 01: Home Movies of Frida Kahlo (and a Side Order of Romantic Entanglements) (1)
- 01: Watch Brian Cox of “Succession” Read Hunter S. Thompson’s Profanity-Laden Letter (1)
- 01: Can We Still Consume the Work of Disgraced Artists — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #119 (0)
- March 2022 (64)
- 31: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: An Animated Video Explaining Key Ideas in Ray Dalio’s New Bestselling Book (0)
- 31: A Gallery of Fantastical Alchemical Drawings (2)
- 31: How To Build a 13th-Century Castle, Using Only Authentic Medieval Tools & Techniques (0)
- 31: Exploring the Greatest of Italy’s 6,000 Ghost Towns: Take a Tour of Craco, Italy (0)
- 30: How Previous Decades Predicted the Future: The 21st Century as Imagined in the 1900s, 1950s, 1980s, and Other Eras (0)
- 30: Francis Ford Coppola Breaks Down His Most Iconic Films: The Godfather, Apocalypse Now & More (1)
- 29: When Stalin Starved Ukraine (6)
- 29: A Field Guide to Strange Medieval Monsters (0)
- 28: Watch the Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins (RIP) Give a Drumming Masterclass (1)
- 28: Explore MoMA’s Collection of Modern & Contemporary Art Every Time You Open a New Browser Tab (1)
- 28: A Vintage Short Film about the Samurai Sword, Narrated by George Takei (1969) (0)
- 28: Adapting Agatha Christie for the Screen — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #118 (0)
- 26: Patti Smith Talks with Malcolm Gladwell About Her Life as an Artist (0)
- 25: Japanese Researcher Sleeps in the Same Location as Her Cat for 24 Consecutive Nights! (7)
- 25: How Yayoi Kusama, Obsessed with Polka Dots, Became One of the Most Radical Artists of All Time (0)
- 25: Pristine, Restored Footage of George Harrison & Bob Dylan Rehearsing “If Not For You” at the Concert for Bangladesh (1971) (1)
- 24: Japanese Toy Designs from the Late 19th & Early 20th Century: Explore an Online Archive (0)
- 24: Watch David Hockney Paint with Light, Using the Quantel Paintbox Graphics System (1986) (0)
- 23: Marina Abramović Brings Back Her Iconic Performance Art Piece, The Artist Is Present, to Raise Money for Ukraine (0)
- 23: Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World (0)
- 22: Explore Rarely-Seen Art by J. R. R. Tolkien in a New Web Site Created by the Tolkien Estate (0)
- 22: What Was Actually Lost When the Library of Alexandria Burned? (2)
- 21: Aldous Huxley Predicts in 1950 What the World Will Look Like in the Year 2000 (0)
- 20: ‘Kyiv Calling:’ Ukrainian Punk Band Rerecords The Clash’s Anthem as a Call to Arms (4)
- 18: When James Brown Played Rikers Island Prison 50 Years Ago (1972) (0)
- 18: Meet Anita Berber, the Cabaret Star Who Scandalized Weimar-Era Berlin (1)
- 17: Arnold Schwarzenegger Tells the Russian People (With Love) About Putin’s War in Ukraine (0)
- 17: Jack Kerouac Reads from On the Road: The Only Known Footage of the Beat Icon Reading His Work (1959) (0)
- 17: Franz Kafka Says the Insect in The Metamorphosis Should Never Be Drawn; and Vladimir Nabokov Draws It Anyway (1)
- 16: When Oliver Stone & Vladimir Putin Chillingly Watched Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove Together (12)
- 16: In 1704, Isaac Newton Predicted That the World Will End in 2060 (10)
- 15: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Performs The Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” (1)
- 15: The Iconic Design of the Doomsday Clock Was Created 75 Years Ago: It Now Says We’re 100 Seconds to Midnight (3)
- 15: Fan Faithfully Reconstructs Cream’s Final Concert: Watch a New Version of the Show with the Correct Song Order and Run-Time (1968) (3)
- 14: Real Footage of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance: Watch Clips from the First Documentary Feature Film Ever Made (1919) (0)
- 14: How to Give Yourself a 3000-Year-Old Hairstyle Using Iron Age Tools (0)
- 12: Ukrainian Violinists Play in Solidarity with 94 Other Violinists from 29 Countries (1)
- 12: Hear Jack Kerouac Read from On The Road on the 100th Anniversary of His Birth (0)
- 11: Heart’s Nancy Wilson Teaches You How to Play the Notoriously Difficult Opening to “Crazy On You” (1)
- 11: Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online: 1,000+ Librarians Digitally Preserve Artifacts of Ukrainian Civilization Before Russia Can Destroy Them (0)
- 10: See the Well-Preserved Wreckage of Ernest Shackleton’s Ship Endurance Found in Antarctica (1)
- 10: Brian Eno Creates a List of 20 Books That Could Rebuild Civilization (21)
- 09: The Failed Logistics of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine (0)
- 09: The First Work of Science Fiction: Read Lucian’s 2nd-Century Space Travelogue A True Story (0)
- 09: When Movies Came on Vinyl: The Early-80s Engineering Marvel and Marketing Disaster That Was RCA’s SelectaVision (0)
- 08: M.I.T. Computer Program Predicts in 1973 That Civilization Will End by 2040 (134)
- 08: Behold the Strandbeest, the Mechanical Animals That Roam the Beaches of Holland (1)
- 07: Odessa Opera House, in 1942 and Today (0)
- 07: When Rod Serling Turned TV Pitchman: See His Post-Twilight Zone Ads for Ford, Mazda, Gulf Oil & Smokey Bear (3)
- 07: Watch a Very Nervous, 23-Year-Old David Byrne and Talking Heads Performing Live in NYC (1976) (2)
- 06: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Teach-Out: A Free Course from the University of Michigan
- 06: Ukrainians Playing Violin in Bunkers as Russians Bomb Them from the Sky
- 05: Pianist Plays “What a Wonderful World” for Ukrainian Refugees at Lviv Station
- 04: A Digital Archive of Hieronymus Bosch’s Complete Works: Zoom In & Explore His Surreal Art (8)
- 04: Free Coloring Books from The Public Domain Review: Download & Color Works by Hokusai, Albrecht Dürer, Harry Clarke, Aubrey Beardsley & More (0)
- 03: The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel: 120 Woodcuts Envision the Grotesque Inhabitants of Rabelais’ World (1565) (0)
- 03: Putin’s War on Ukraine Explained in 8 Minutes (3)
- 03: Hades, the First Video Game to Win a Hugo, and the Roguelike Genre — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #117 (1)
- 02: Russia’s War on Ukraine: A Conversation Hosted by The Atlantic, Featuring Anne Applebaum, Tom Nichols & Jeffrey Goldberg (1)
- 02: How Volodymyr Zelenskyy Went from Playing a President on a Comedy TV Show to Very Real Life (0)
- 02: Carl Sagan Explains Evolution in an 8-Minute Animation (9)
- 01: The Story of Fascism: Rick Steves’ Documentary Helps Us Learn from the Hard Lessons of the 20th Century
- 01: Dick Van Dyke Still Dancing at 96! (15)
- 01: How Aladdin Sane Became the Most Expensive Album Cover Ever — and David Bowie’s Defining Image (0)
- February 2022 (54)
- 28: Free Coloring Books from 101 World-Class Libraries & Museums: Download and Color Hundreds of Free Images (0)
- 28: Hear the Uncensored Original Version of “Hurricane,” Bob Dylan’s Protest Song About Jailed Boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter (1976) (15)
- 27: Why Russia Invaded Ukraine: A Useful Primer
- 26: West Point Expert Gives Ukrainians Advice on Conducting Effective Urban Warfare Against Russian Troops
- 25: Are You a Fascist?: Take Theodor Adorno’s Authoritarian Personality Test Created to Combat Fascism (1947)
- 25: Starship Titanic: The Video Game Created by Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), with Help from John Cleese & Terry Jones (0)
- 24: The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Has Been Digitized and Put Online (1)
- 24: Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism (0)
- 24: The New Herbal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Botanical Illustrations Gets Republished in a Beautiful 900-Page Book by Taschen (0)
- 24: Paula Cole Discusses Songwriting: Stream the Nakedly Examined Music Interview Online (0)
- 23: Haruki Murakami’s Five Favorite Books (3)
- 23: The Psychology of Messiness & Creativity: Study Shows How a Messy Desk and Creative Work Go Hand in Hand (1)
- 22: The Dune Encyclopedia: The Controversial, Definitive Guide to the World of Frank Herbert’s Sci-Fi Masterpiece (1984) (0)
- 22: When Eartha Kitt Spoke Truth to Power at a 1968 White House Luncheon (1)
- 22: David Byrne Answers the Internet’s Burning Questions About David Byrne (0)
- 21: What Made Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus a Revolutionary Painting (2)
- 21: How the 1968 Psychedelic Film Head Destroyed the Monkees & Became a Cult Classic (4)
- 18: “When The Levee Breaks” Performed by John Paul Jones & Musicians Around the World (2)
- 18: How to Actually Cook Salvador Dali’s Surrealist Recipes: Crayfish, Prawns, and Spitted Eggs (0)
- 18: How Quentin Tarantino Remixes History: A Brief Study of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (0)
- 18: The Enduring Appeal of Schulz’s Peanuts — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #116 (0)
- 17: 3,200-Year-Old Egyptian Tablet Records Excuses for Why People Missed Work: “The Scorpion Bit Him,” “Brewing Beer” & More (8)
- 17: Watch “Pass the Ball,” a Collaborative Animation Made by 40 Animators Across the Globe (0)
- 16: Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & Wite-Out (0)
- 16: P.J. O’Rourke (RIP) Explains Why You Can Never Win Over Your Political Adversaries by Mocking Them (3)
- 16: Organized Chaos!: Watch 33 Videos Showing How Saturday Night Live Gets Made Each Week (0)
- 15: Howard Zinn’s Recommended Reading List for Activists Who Want to Change the World (6)
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- 14: Ivan Reitman’s First Film “Orientation” (1968) (0)
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- 10: Zoo Hires Marvin Gaye Impersonator to Help Endangered Monkeys “Get It On” (2)
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- 07: Bob Dylan Goes Punk on Late Night with David Letterman, Playing “Jokerman” with the Latino Punk Band, the Plugz (1984) (10)
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- 04: Read the Original Serialized Edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1918) (1)
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- 03: Bambi Meets Godzilla: #38 on the List of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time (2)
- 03: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Bialetti Moka Express: A Deep Dive Into Italy’s Most Popular Coffee Maker (3)
- 02: In 1922, a Novelist Predicts What the World Will Look Like in 2022: Wireless Telephones, 8-Hour Flights to Europe & More (72)
- 02: The Anti-Vaxxer Who Waged War Against Jonas Salk & His Polio Vaccine: When History Keeps Repeating (2)
- 01: Rare Arabic 78 RPM Records Enter the Public Domain (1)
- 01: 17th-Century Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate: How “Buddhist Emoji” Made the Sūtra Legible for Those Who Couldn’t Read (1)
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- 31: An Opera Singer & Cabaret Artist Record an Astonishing Version of David Bowie & Queen’s “Under Pressure” (2)
- 31: Tennessee School Board Bans Maus, the Pulitzer-Prize Winning Graphic Novel on the Holocaust; the Book Becomes #1 Bestseller on Amazon (5)
- 31: A Brief Animated History of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses & the Reformation–Which Changed Europe and Later the World (0)
- 28: Watch a Human White Blood Cell Chase Bacteria Through a Field of Red Blood Cells (0)
- 28: The Marcel Duchamp Research Portal Opens, Making Available 18,000 Documents and 50,000 Images Related to the Revolutionary Artist (0)
- 28: Great Art Cities: Visit the Fascinating, Lesser-Known Museums of London & Paris (1)
- 27: Watch the Renaissance Painting, The Battle of San Romano, Get Brought Beautifully to Life in a Hand-Painted Animation (0)
- 26: The Incredible Story of the Hoover Dam (0)
- 26: Archaeologists Discover a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Glass Bowl in Perfect Condition (5)
- 26: Watch a Joyful Video Where 52 Renowned Choreographers Link Together to Create a Dance Chain Letter (1)
- 25: How Bob Dylan Created a Musical & Literary World All His Own: Four Video Essays (0)
- 25: An 8-Minute Animated Flight Over Ancient Rome (1)
- 25: Lou Reed Turns Rock Critic, Sizing Up Everyone from the “Amazingly Talented” Beatles to the “Two Bit, Pretentious” Frank Zappa (8)
- 24: The Queen’s Guard Pays Tribute to Meatloaf, Playing a Brass Version of “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” (5)
- 24: How French Music Teacher Nadia Boulanger Raised a Generation of Composers: Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Quincy Jones, Philip Glass & More (2)
- 24: New Study Finds That Humans Are 33,000 Years Older Than We Thought (0)
- 24: How to Open a Door: A Finnish Instructional Video from 1979 (0)
- 24: The Great Chicago Book Sale: Get Up to 90% Off Books from UChicago Press (0)
- 21: Hear Benedict Cumberbatch Reading Letters by Kurt Vonnegut, Alan Turing, Sol LeWitt, and Others (0)
- 21: How a Fake Cartoon Band Made “Sugar Sugar” the Biggest Selling Hit Single of 1969 (4)
- 21: A New Album of Goth-Folk Songs Inspired by the Life of Marie Curie (0)
- 20: How Karl Marx Influenced Abraham Lincoln and His Position on Slavery & Labor (2)
- 20: 1,100 Delicate Drawings of Root Systems Reveals the Hidden World of Plants (0)
- 19: Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation (79 AD) (3)
- 19: Read the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944) (4)
- 19: Martin Heidegger Talks Philosophy with a Buddhist Monk on German TV (1963) (0)
- 18: Discovered: Lost Johnny Cash Concert Recorded by the Grateful Dead’s LSD Chemist Owsley Stanley (1968) (0)
- 18: When Andy Warhol Guest-Starred on The Love Boat (1985) (0)
- 18: Who Betrayed Anne Frank and Her Family?: Machine Learning, a Retired FBI Agent and a Team of Investigators May Have Finally Solved the Case (0)
- 18: The Philosophy of Games: C. Thi Nguyen on the Philosophy vs. Improv Podcast (0)
- 17: People in the Middle Ages Slept Not Once But Twice Each Night: How This Lost Practice Was Rediscovered (4)
- 17: Discover Khipu, the Ancient Incan Record & Writing System Made Entirely of Knots (0)
- 14: The Origins of the Word “Gaslighting”: Scenes from the 1944 Film Gaslight (11)
- 14: How Pulp Fiction Uses the Socratic Method, the Philosophical Method from Ancient Greece (1)
- 14: The “West Side Story” Story — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #114 (0)
- 13: Bob Dylan’s Famous Televised Press Conference After He Went Electric (1965) (6)
- 13: Why the U.S. Photographed Its Own World War II Concentration Camps (and Commissioned Photographs by Dorothea Lange) (0)
- 12: How to Decode NASA’s Message to Aliens (0)
- 12: Toni Morrison Lists the 10 Steps That Lead Countries to Fascism (1995) (0)
- 12: Maya Angelou Becomes the First Black Woman Featured on a U.S. Quarter (1)
- 11: How to Ride a Pterosaur, According to Science (0)
- 11: Behold Medieval Snowball Fights: A Timeless Way of Having Fun (1)
- 11: An Introduction to the Painting of Caspar David Friedrich, Romanticism & the Sublime (0)
- 10: Charles and Ray Eames’ Powers of Ten Updated to Reflect Our Modern Understanding of the Universe (3)
- 10: Watch Laurie Anderson’s Hypnotic Harvard Lecture Series on Poetry, Meditation, Death, New York & More (2)
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- 09: Alberto Giacometti: A Documentary Look at the Life & Work of the Great Modernist Artist (0)
- 07: The Bialetti Moka Express: The History of Italy’s Iconic Coffee Maker, and How to Use It the Right Way (11)
- 07: How Did the Mona Lisa Become the World’s Most Famous Painting?: It’s Not What You Think (0)
- 07: The Matrix Regurgitated — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #113 (0)
- 06: Hear Debussy Play Debussy’s Most Famous Piece, “Clair de lune” (1913) (8)
- 06: This Is What It Sounds Like When a Harpist Plays “Amazing Grace” and a String Suddenly Breaks (1)
- 06: Watch Nirvana Perform as an Opening Band, Two Years Before Their Breakout Album Nevermind (1989) (3)
- 05: Explore the New 717-Gigapixel Scan of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, the Most Detailed Photo Ever Taken of a Work of Art (0)
- 05: Animals Laugh Too: UCLA Study Finds Laughter in 65 Species, from Rats to Cows (2)
- 04: 75 Post-Punk and Hardcore Concerts from the 1980s Have Been Digitized & Put Online: Fugazi, GWAR, Lemonheads, Dain Bramage (with Dave Grohl) & More (2)
- 04: 400,000+ Sound Recordings Made Before 1923 Have Entered the Public Domain (1)
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- 31: How Fashionable Dutch Women (Like the Girl with a Pearl Earring) Got Dressed in 1665 (0)
- 30: Brian Eno Shares His Critical Take on Art & NFTs: “I Mainly See Hustlers Looking for Suckers” (11)
- 30: The Amazing Engineering of James Webb Telescope (2)
- 30: Asleep at the Wheel Frontman Ray Benson Discusses Half a Hundred Years of Songwriting: Stream the Nakedly Examined Music Interview Online (0)
- 29: 500 Years of Haircuts: One Youtuber Tries Out the Hair Styles That Were Fashionable Between 1500 and 2000 (4)
- 29: The Famous Downfall Scene Explained: What Really Happened in Hitler’s Bunker at the End? (0)
- 28: Enjoy Classic Songs from A Charlie Brown Christmas, Performed by Vince Guaraldi Trio Drummer Jerry Granelli (RIP) (1)
- 28: Why Europe Has So Few Skyscrapers (1)
- 28: The Omicron Variant Explained by Neil deGrasse Tyson & Regeneron President George Yancopoulos (0)
- 28: The Jagger Moving Company (0)
- 27: Doreen Ketchens’ Astonishing Rendition of “The House of the Rising Sun”: A World-Class Clarinetist Busks on the Streets of New Orleans (2)
- 27: A Deep Study of the Opening Scene of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (0)
- 27: Is There Life After Death?: John Cleese and a Panel of Scientists Discuss That Eternal Question (1)
- 24: When Maurice Sendak Created a Dark Nutcracker Ballet (0)
- 24: Watch Bing Crosby’s Final Christmas Special, Featuring a Famous Duet with Bowie, and Bowie Introducing His New Song, “Heroes” (1977) (1)
- 24: Watch Awesome Human Choreography That Reproduces the Murmurations of Starling Flocks (0)
- 23: What Does It Take to Be a Great Artist?: An Aging Painter Reflects on His Creative Process & Why He Will Never Be a Picasso (1)
- 23: Watch the Building of the Empire State Building in Color: The Creation of the Iconic 1930s Skyscraper From Start to Finish (0)
- 23: Why “White Christmas,” “Here Comes Santa Claus,” “Let It Snow,” and Other Classic Christmas Songs Come from the 1940s (1)
- 22: J.R.R. Tolkien Sent Illustrated Letters from Father Christmas to His Kids Every Year (1920-1943) (3)
- 22: The 850 Books a Texas Lawmaker Wants to Ban Because They Could Make Students Feel Uncomfortable (7)
- 22: Class Critiques in Squid Game, Succession, etc. — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #112 (0)
- 21: How the Beatles Experimented with Indian Music & Pioneered a New Rock and Roll Sound (0)
- 21: An AI Computer Watched Hitchcock’s Vertigo 20 Times & Then Made Its Own Disturbing Movie (0)
- 20: How Eating Kentucky Fried Chicken Became a Christmas Tradition in Japan (2)
- 20: How Jean Renoir’s Great Anti-War Film Grand Illusion Became “Cinematographic Enemy Number One” to the Nazis (0)
- 20: An Oscar-Winning Animation of Charles Dickens’ Classic Tale, A Christmas Carol (1971) (0)
- 18: Hear Brian Eno Sing The Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows” as Part of The Best Live Album of the Glam/Prog Era (1976) (5)
- 18: 60 Film Noir Movies Online (2)
- 17: An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper, Without Any Cutting (0)
- 16: George Harrison “My Sweet Lord” Gets an Official Music Video, Featuring Ringo Starr, Al Yankovic, Patton Oswalt & Many Others (2)
- 16: The True Meaning of Queen’s Rock Epic “Bohemian Rhapsody” (9)
- 16: Hunter S. Thompson Sets His Christmas Tree on Fire, Almost Burns His House Down (1990) (0)
- 16: The Dune Franchise Tries Again — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #110 (0)
- 15: New York’s Lost Skyscraper: The Rise and Fall of the Singer Tower (0)
- 15: Before Bauhaus: How Goth Became Goth (0)
- 15: How George Martin Defined the Sound of the Beatles: From String Quartets to Backwards Guitar Solos (1)
- 14: Watch the 1907’s Nightmare-Inducing Short Film The Dancing Pig, Now Fully Colorized (0)
- 14: 18 Male Leonard Cohen Fans Over the Age of 65 Star in an Oddly Moving A Cappella Version of “I’m Your Man” (1)
- 14: Rick Rubin: The Invisibility of Hip Hop’s Greatest Producer (1)
- 13: Watch 11-Year-Old Billy Preston Duet with Nat King Cole: A Star is Born (1957) (2)
- 13: Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals: What Makes Them Great Art (1)
- 13: Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: Discover One of the Most Prized Natural History Books of All Time (1734-1765) (0)
- 13: Breaking Down the Beatles’ Get Back Documentary: Stream Episode #111 of the Pretty Much Pop Podcast (0)
- 10: What Makes Salvador Dalí’s Iconic Surrealist Painting “The Persistence of Memory” a Great Work of Art (1)
- 10: Watch Frank Zappa Play Michael Nesmith (RIP) on The Monkees–and Vice Versa (1967) (4)
- 10: Stephen Sondheim’s 40 Favorite Films (3)
- 09: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Will Be Retold from a Woman’s Point of View (8)
- 09: Taschen Publishes the First 21 Stories of Spider Man in a High Resolution, Extra-Large Format Art Book (0)
- 09: Edvard Munch’s Famous Painting “The Scream” Animated to Pink Floyd’s Primal Music (1)
- 08: ‘The Character of Physical Law’: Richard Feynman’s Legendary Course Presented at Cornell, 1964 (0)
- 08: Download 215,000 Japanese Woodblock Prints by Masters Spanning the Tradition’s 350-Year History (1)
- 08: Punks, Goths, and Mods on TV (1983) (0)
- 07: How Well Can You Move in Medieval Armor?: Medievalist Daniel Jaquet Gives It a Try in Real Life (0)
- 07: Stephen Fry Explains How to Deal with Bullying (0)
- 07: When the Colosseum in Rome Became the Home of Hundreds of Exotic Plant Species (0)
- 06: Pink Floyd’s Entire Studio Discography is Now on YouTube: Stream the Studio & Live Albums (5)
- 06: The Quirky Self-Portraits of 18th Century Painter Joseph Ducreux (0)
- 06: How Peter Jackson Used Artificial Intelligence to Restore the Video & Audio Featured in The Beatles: Get Back (5)
- 04: Dave Grohl & Greg Kurstin Cover The Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop” to Celebrate Hannukah: Hey! Oy! Let’s Goy! (0)
- 03: Behold the Glass Armonica, the Unbelievably Fragile Instrument Invented by Benjamin Franklin (0)
- 03: Catherine the Great of Russia Sends a Letter Urging Her Fellow Russians to Get Inoculated Against Smallpox (1787) (1)
- 03: Archaeologists Discover 200,000-Year-Old Hand & Footprints That Could Be the World’s Earliest Cave Art (37)
- 02: Stephen Fry on the Power of Words in Nazi Germany: How Dehumanizing Language Laid the Foundation for Genocide (1)
- 02: How to Be a Samurai: A 17th Century Code for Life & War (0)
- 01: Dave Grohl & Greg Kurstin Cover Van Halen’s “Jump,” Celebrating David Lee Roth, One of the Hardest Rocking Jews, on the Fourth Night of Hannukah (0)
- 01: Browse a Huge Collection of Prison Newspapers: 1800-2020 (0)
- 01: How Drummer Moe Tucker Defined the Sound of the Velvet Underground (1)
- 01: What Movies Teach Us About Mozart: Exploring the Cinematic Uses of His Famous Lacrimosa (0)
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- 30: Watch Paul McCartney Compose The Beatles Classic “Get Back” Out of Thin Air (1969) (0)
- 30: How a Mosaic from Caligula’s Party Boat Became a Coffee Table in a New York City Apartment 50 Years Ago (0)
- 30: Hear Haruki Murakami Play Beatles Covers on His Radio Show, Murakami Radio (0)
- 29: The 17th Century Japanese Samurai Who Sailed to Europe, Met the Pope & Became a Roman Citizen (4)
- 29: Watch John Cage’s 4’33” Played by Musicians Around the World (0)
- 29: Watch Hilarious Spoofs of Classic Film Genres: Film Noir, Spaghetti Westerns, Scandinavian Crime Dramas, Time Travel Films & More (0)
- 26: Blade Runner and Alien TV Shows Confirmed by Ridley Scott (4)
- 26: The Drugs Used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans (0)
- 26: Dueling as a Film Trope: Pretty Much Pop #109 Considers The Last Duel and Its Genre (0)
- 25: The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic (1)
- 24: Jazz Virtuoso Oscar Peterson Gives Dick Cavett a Dazzling Piano Lesson (1979) (2)
- 24: Read 900+ Thanksgiving Books Free at the Internet Archive (0)
- 24: The Secrets of Beethoven’s Fifth, the World’s Most Famous Symphony (1)
- 23: In 1997, Wired Magazine Predicts 10 Things That Could Go Wrong in the 21st Century: “An Uncontrollable Plague,” Climate Crisis, Russia Becomes a Kleptocracy & More (0)
- 23: Legendary DJ John Peel Makes a List of His 20 Favorite Albums (0)
- 22: Elegant 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Well (2)
- 22: Elvis Costello’s Musician Father (and Doppelgänger) Performing in 1963 (1)
- 21: The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash (0)
- 19: 8 Hours of David Bowie’s Historic 1980 Floor Show: Complete & Uncut Footage (3)
- 19: Cornel West Teaches You How to Think Like a Philosopher (0)
- 19: How German Expressionism Gave Rise to the “Dutch” Angle, the Camera Shot That Defined Classic Films by Welles, Hitchcock, Tarantino & More (0)
- 18: Bach on a Möbius Strip: Marcus du Sautoy Visualizes How Bach Used Math to Compose His Music (0)
- 18: Carl Sagan Warns Congress about Climate Change (1985) (0)
- 18: How Led Zeppelin Stole Their Way to Fame and Fortune (10)
- 17: How the World’s First Anti-Vax Movement Started with the First Vaccine for Smallpox in 1796, and Spread Fears of People Getting Turned into Half-Cow Babies (3)
- 17: Meet the Oud, the “King of All Instruments” Whose Origins Stretch Back 3500 Years Ago to Ancient Persia (0)
- 17: How Stanley Kubrick Made 2001: A Space Odyssey: A Seven-Part Video Essay (0)
- 16: Albert Einstein in Four Color Films (0)
- 16: Fred Armisen Teaches a Short Seminar on the History of Punk (0)
- 16: When John Belushi Booked the Punk Band Fear on SNL, And They Got Banned from the Show: A Short Documentary (0)
- 15: Stephen Fry Takes Us Inside the Story of Johannes Gutenberg & the First Printing Press (0)
- 15: Watch All of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments (1)
- 15: The Mystery of Who Played Bass on The White Album’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (12)
- 14: Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free – The Making of Wildflowers Is Streaming Free on YouTube (0)
- 12: Meet the Mysterious Genius Who Patented the UFO (0)
- 12: Watch 30+ Exceptional Short Films for Free in The New Yorker’s Online Screening Room (0)
- 11: Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy (1)
- 11: What Is Sun Tzu’s The Art of War About?: A Short Introduction (1)
- 11: Life Magazine Predicts in 1914 How People Would Dress in the 1950s (4)
- 10: How Kraftwerk Made the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (0)
- 10: Violinist Breaks a String While Performing Tchaikovsky in Concert, and Gracefully Recovers (3)
- 10: What Makes Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ a Timeless, Great Painting? (0)
- 09: Rare Book Featuring the Concept Art for Jodorowsky’s Dune Goes Up for Auction (1975) (0)
- 09: A Fascinating 3D Animation Shows the Depths of the Ocean (0)
- 09: How Martin Luther King, Jr. Wrote His Momentous “I Have a Dream” Speech (1963) (0)
- 08: When Nikola Tesla Claimed to Have Invented a “Death Ray,” Capable of Destroying Enemies 250 Miles Away & Making War Obsolete (0)
- 08: John Cleese Presents His 5-Step Plan for Shorter, More Productive Meetings (1976) (0)
- 08: Watch the Jackson 5’s First Appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show (1969) (3)
- 08: Board Game Ideology — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #108 (0)
- 07: Wunderkind Musician Nandi Bushell Pays Tribute to Charlie Watts, Playing All of the Tracks on “Gimme Shelter” (0)
- 05: Richard Pryor & George Carlin Appear Together on a Classic Episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (3)
- 05: What Makes the Mona Lisa a Great Painting: A Deep Dive (0)
- 05: An Introduction to the Chrysler Building, New York’s Art Deco Masterpiece, by John Malkovich (1994) (0)
- 04: Michelangelo Entered a Competition to Put a Missing Arm Back on Laocoön and His Sons — and Lost (0)
- 04: Why Leonardo da Vinci’s Greatest Painting is Not the Mona Lisa (0)
- 04: The Nine Greatest Films You’ve Never Seen (3)
- 03: The Awe-Inspiring But Tragic Story of Africa’s Festival In The Desert (2001-2012) (0)
- 03: Watch Wes Anderson’s Animated Music Video for The French Dispatch, Featuring a Track by Jarvis Cocker (0)
- 03: 9-Year-Old Henry Thomas Delivers a Remarkable Screen Test for E.T. (0)
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- 02: Behold 84 Great Novels Reinterpreted as Modernist Postage Stamps (2)
- 02: Hear Brian Eno’s Contribution to the Soundtrack of David Lynch’s Dune (1984) (1)
- 01: The 10 Paradoxical Traits of Creative People, According to Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (RIP) (6)
- 01: Watch the Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up” Music Video Re-Enacted by Robots (0)
- 01: Hear Hans Zimmer’s Experimental Score for the New Dune Film (2)
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- 31: Metallica Teaches a New Masterclass on How to Build & Sustain a Band (0)
- 29: Watch the New Trailer for a Kurt Vonnegut Documentary 40 Years In the Making (0)
- 29: When The Who Saved New York City After 9/11: Watch Their Cathartic Madison Square Garden Set (October 20, 2001) (2)
- 28: The Human Brain: A Free Online Course from MIT (0)
- 28: Play a Kandinsky: A New Simulation Lets You Experience Kandinsky’s Synesthesia & the Sounds He May Have Heard When Painting “Yellow-Red-Blue” (1)
- 28: Scenes of New York City in 1945 Colorized & Revived with Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 28: The Story of the Edsel, Ford’s Infamously Failed Car Brand of the 1950s (0)
- 27: Watch Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli Play Masterfully Together in Vivid Color (1938) (1)
- 27: New Research Confirms That the Vikings Landed in North America 471 Years Before Columbus & Exactly 1,000 Years Ago (2)
- 26: Become a Project Manager Without a College Degree with Google’s Project Management Certificate (1)
- 26: Yale Professor Jason Stanley Identifies 10 Tactics of Fascism: The “Cult of the Leader,” Law & Order, Victimhood and More (3)
- 26: Three Hours of Yo Yo Ma Playing Bach’s Six Cello Suites: Music That “Helps Us Navigate Through Troubled Times” (0)
- 25: Bill Gates Lets College Students Download a Free Digital Copy of His Book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (1)
- 25: Why–and When–Did the United States Turn Against Science?: Views from Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Margaret Atwood & More (10)
- 25: Elvis’ Three Appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show: Watch History in the Making and from the Waist Up (1956) (0)
- 25: How Randy Bachman Found His Stolen Favorite Guitar After 45 Years, with the Help of Facial-Recognition Software (2)
- 23: Dave Grohl Rocks Out, Playing Drums Along to the Original Recording of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (0)
- 22: How Radiohead Wrote the Perfect James Bond Theme Song (2)
- 22: “The Hippie Temptation”: An Angst-Ridden CBS TV Show Warns of the Risks of LSD (1976) (0)
- 21: How Neal Stephenson’s Sci-Fi Novel Snow Crash Invented the “Metaverse,” Which Facebook Now Plans to Build (1992) (1)
- 21: Demystifying Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ “Red Right Hand,” and How It Was Inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost (1)
- 21: The Does and Don’ts of Putting on a Prison Concert: Johnny Cash, BB King, the Grateful Dead, Bonnie Tyler & The Cramps (1)
- 20: Mozart Sonatas Can Help Treat Epilepsy: A New Study from Dartmouth (0)
- 20: When Salvador Dali Viewed Joseph Cornell’s Surrealist Film, Became Enraged & Shouted: “He Stole It from My Subconscious!” (1936) (0)
- 20: The Beautifully Illustrated Atlas of Mushrooms: Edible, Suspect and Poisonous (1827) (0)
- 19: A 13th-Century Cookbook Featuring 475 Recipes from Moorish Spain Gets Published in a New Translated Edition (1)
- 19: A Beautifully Illustrated Edition of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, the Bestselling Book by Historian Timothy Snyder (4)
- 19: Criterion Collection Flash Sale: Get 50% Off In-Stock Blu Rays & DVDs (0)
- 19: Nick Cave’s Online Store: Pencils Adorned with Lyrics, Mugs, Polaroids & More (0)
- 18: The Downfall of Oscar Wilde: An Animated Video Tells How Wilde Quickly Went from Celebrity Playwright to Prisoner (0)
- 18: A 110-Year-Old Book Illustrated with Photos of Kittens & Cats Taught Kids How to Read (2)
- 18: John Lennon Finally Meets & Jams with His Hero, Chuck Berry (1972) (3)
- 15: A Sneak Peek of Peter Jackson’s New Beatles Documentary Get Back: Watch the New Trailer (1)
- 15: The Little-Known Bombing of Pompeii During World War II (0)
- 14: William Shatner in Tears After Becoming the Oldest Person in Space: ‘I’m So Filled with Emotion … I Hope I Never Recover from This” (1)
- 14: 136 Paintings by Gustav Klimt Now Online (Including 63 Paintings in an Immersive Augmented Reality Gallery) (1)
- 14: Archaeologists Discover 1300-Year-Old Pair of Skis, the Best-Preserved Ancient Skis in Existence (0)
- 14: Slot Machine Age: A 1964 British Newsreel Angsts Over Whether Automated Machines Will Displace People (1)
- 14: What Makes a “Cult” Band? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #107 (0)
- 13: Behold the Photographs of John Thomson, the First Western Photographer to Travel Widely Through China (1870s) (2)
- 13: Watch Free Cult Films by Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi & More on the New Kino Cult Streaming Service (0)
- 13: Dave Grohl Falls Offstage & Breaks His Leg, Then Continues the Show as The Foo Fighters Play Queen’s “Under Pressure” (2015) (13)
- 12: Meet Tsuneko Sasamoto, Japan’s First Female Photojournalist and Now, at 107, Japan’s Oldest Living Photojournalist (0)
- 12: The Myth of Sisyphus Creatively Animated in an Oscar-Nominated Short Film (1974) (0)
- 12: Watch Jaco Pastorius: The Lost Tapes Documentary, the Fan-Made Film on the Most Innovative Bass Player of All Time (0)
- 11: Gustav Klimt’s Masterpieces Destroyed During World War II Get Recreated with Artificial Intelligence (3)
- 11: When J.R.R. Tolkien Worked for the Oxford English Dictionary and “Learned More … Than Any Other Equal Period of My Life” (1919-1920) (5)
- 11: Witness Maya Angelou & James Baldwin’s Close Friendship in a TV Interview from 1975 (0)
- 10: Ohio State Marching Band Plays Tribute to Rush: “2112,” “YYZ,” “Tom Sawyer” & “Limelight” (0)
- 08: Watch “The Impossible Map,” a Short Animated Film That Uses a Grapefruit to Show Why Maps of the Earth Are Misleading (1947) (2)
- 08: Quentin Tarantino Gives a Tour of Video Archives, the Store Where He Worked Before Becoming a Filmmaker (0)
- 08: A Walking Tour Around the Pyramids of Giza: 2 Hours in Hi Def (0)
- 07: An Animated History of the Ottoman Empire (1299 – 1922) (2)
- 07: A Brilliant Demonstration of Magnets & the Promise of Levitating Trains (1975) (0)
- 07: How to Make Comics: A Four-Part Series from the Museum of Modern Art (0)
- 06: A Guitarist Rocks Out on Guitars Made from Shovels, Cigar Boxes, Oil Cans & Whisky Barrels (0)
- 06: Gustav Klimt’s Iconic Painting The Kiss: An Introduction to Austrian Painter’s Golden, Erotic Masterpiece (1908) (1)
- 06: Albert Camus on the Responsibility of the Artist: To “Create Dangerously” (1957) (0)
- 05: The Beach Boys’ Lost Concert: Watch the Band Perform Their Classics at Their Zenith (1964) (0)
- 05: Medieval Tennis: A Short History and Demonstration (0)
- 05: Footage of the Last Known Tasmanian Tiger Restored in Color (1933) (0)
- 05: Facebook Whistleblower Offers an Unprecedented Look at How the Company “Chooses Profits Over Safety” (0)
- 04: The Medieval Ban Against the “Devil’s Tritone”: Debunking a Great Myth in Music Theory (1)
- 04: Monet’s Water Lilies: How World War I Inspired Monet to Paint His Final Masterpieces & Create “the World’s First Art Installation” (3)
- 04: DEVO Co-Founder Jerry Casale Muses on Songwriting & Social Protest: Stream the Nakedly Examined Music Interview Online (1)
- 03: Ai Weiwei Creates Hand-Silkscreened Scarves Drawing on a Chinese Paper Cutting Tradition (0)
- 01: Encore! Encore! An Hour of the World’s Most Beautiful Classical Guitar (3)
- 01: Japanese Guided Tours of the Louvre, Versailles, the Marais & Other Famous French Places (English Subtitles Included) (0)
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- 30: David Bowie’s Lost Album Toy Will Get an Official Release: Hear the First Track “You’ve Got A Habit Of Leaving” (0)
- 30: See Every Nuclear Explosion in History: 2153 Blasts from 1945-2015 (0)
- 30: Jim Henson’s Farewell: Revisit the “Nice, Friendly” Memorial Service at St. John the Divine (1990) (0)
- 29: Nirvana Refuses to Mime Along to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on Top of the Pops (1991) (1)
- 29: America’s First Banned Book: Discover the 1637 Book That Mocked the Puritans (0)
- 29: Why Scientists Can’t Recreate the Sound of Stradivarius Violins: The Mystery of Their Inimitable Sound (9)
- 29: Stand-Up Comedy in the Internet Age — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #106 (0)
- 28: How New Yorkers Dodged Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws by Inventing the World’s Worst Sandwich (1)
- 28: Listen to Freddie Mercury & David Bowie on the Isolated Vocal Track for the Queen Hit ‘Under Pressure,’ 1981 (0)
- 28: Quentin Tarantino Reviews Movies: From Dunkirk and King of New York, to Soul Brothers of Kung Fu & More (0)
- 27: Building Without Nails: The Genius of Japanese Carpentry (1)
- 27: Beethoven’s Unfinished Tenth Symphony Gets Completed by Artificial Intelligence: Hear How It Sounds (2)
- 27: Andy Warhol’s Vibrant, Impractical, Illustrated Cookbook from 1959: A Feast for the Eyes (0)
- 26: Watch a Gripping 10-Minute Animation About the Hunt for Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann (1)
- 26: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Share One Free” Deal Giving You Access to 100+ Courses (Available Until September 29) (0)
- 24: A Gigantic Violin Floats Down Venice’s Grand Canal with a String Quartet on Top (0)
- 24: View 103 Discovered Drawings by Famed Japanese Woodcut Artist Katsushika Hokusai (0)
- 23: A Rare, Early Version of the King Arthur Legend Found & Translated (0)
- 23: Behold the Newly-Discovered Sketch by Vincent van Gogh Sketch, “Study for Worn Out” (1882) (1)
- 23: Hear the Brazilian Metal Band Singing in–and Trying to Save–Their Native Language of Tupi-Guarani (0)
- 22: Hobbes, Locke & Rousseau: An Animated Introduction to Their Political Theories (0)
- 22: When the Nobel Prize Committee Rejected The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien “Has Not Measured Up to Storytelling of the Highest Quality” (1961) (33)
- 22: Good with Words: A Series of Writing & Editing Courses from the University of Michigan (1)
- 22: The Death of Soap Operas (Is Greatly Exaggerated) — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #105 (0)
- 21: Superstar Violinist Nigel Kennedy Reinvents Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze”: Watch Two Dynamic Performances (4)
- 21: Explore Thousands of Free Vintage Cocktail Recipes Online (1705-1951) (0)
- 21: Why Do People Hate Modern Architecture?: A Video Essay (1)
- 20: Cartoonist Lynda Barry Teaches You How to Make a Visual Daily Diary (0)
- 20: The Recording Secrets of Nirvana’s Nevermind Revealed by Producer Butch Vig (1)
- 20: How England First Became England: An Animated History (3)
- 19: How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy & Our Lives: A Stanford Course with Sal Khan, Thomas Friedman, Kara Swisher, Sasha Baron Cohen, Reid Hoffman & More (0)
- 17: DIY Air Purifiers for Teachers: Free Designs & Step-by-Step Instructions Online (0)
- 17: What It’s Like to Actually Fight in Medieval Armor (0)
- 16: How Italian Physicist Laura Bassi Became the First Woman to Have an Academic Career in the 18th Century (0)
- 16: Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: The Real Perceptual Disorder That May Have Shaped Lewis Carroll’s Creative World (0)
- 16: The Strange Magic of Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Chile” (1)
- 15: Elvis Presley Gets the Polio Vaccine on The Ed Sullivan Show, Persuading Millions to Get Vaccinated (1956) (3)
- 15: How Victorian Homes Turned Deadly: Exploding Stoves, Poison Wallpaper, Ever-Tighter Corsets & More (0)
- 15: The Roman Colosseum Has a Twin in Tunisia: Discover the Amphitheater of El Jem, One of the Best-Preserved Roman Ruins in the World (1)
- 15: King Arthur in Film: Our Most Enduring Popular Entertainment Franchise? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #104 (0)
- 14: The Very First Webcam Was Invented to Keep an Eye on a Coffee Pot at Cambridge University (1)
- 14: What Makes Basquiat’s Untitled Great Art: One Painting Says Everything Basquiat Wanted to Say About America, Art & Being Black in Both Worlds (0)
- 14: Zoom Into a Super High Resolution Photo of Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” (1)
- 13: Art History School: Learn About the Art & Lives of Toulouse-Lautrec, Gustav Klimt, Frances Bacon, Edvard Munch & Many More (0)
- 13: Sci-Fi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback Predicts Telemedicine in 1925 (1)
- 13: The Evolution of Kandinsky’s Painting: A Journey from Realism to Vibrant Abstraction Over 46 Years (0)
- 12: A 10-Course Introduction to Data Science from Johns Hopkins (0)
- 10: William Blake’s 102 Illustrations of The Divine Comedy Collected in a Beautiful Book from Taschen (2)
- 10: Exercise Extreme Mindfulness with These Calming Zen Rock Garden Videos (0)
- 10: Paul McCartney vs. Brian Wilson: A Rivalry That Inspired Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper, and Other Classic Albums (3)
- 09: Is the Famous Photo of Lee Harvey Oswald Posing with the Gun Used to Kill JFK a Fake?: 3D Forensic Analysis Reveals the Answer (0)
- 09: Tove Jansson, Beloved Creator of the Moomins, Illustrates The Hobbit (0)
- 09: How Agnès Varda Explores Beauty in Cléo from 5 to 7: a Video Essay (0)
- 08: Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Free Course from Columbia University (1)
- 08: A Restored Vermeer Painting Reveals a Portrait of a Cupid Hidden for Over 350 Years (1)
- 08: Why Do We Dream?: An Animated Lesson (0)
- 08: Darth Vader’s Voice: The Original Voice Versus the Vocals of James Earl Jones (0)
- 07: The First Air Raid Happened When Austria Dropped Bombs on Venice from Pilotless Hot-Air Balloons (1849) (0)
- 07: Watch Prince Appear on the Muppets Tonight Show & Reveal His Humble, Down-to-Earth Side (1997) (0)
- 07: RIP Jean-Paul Belmondo: The Actor Who Went from the French New Wave to Action Superstardom (0)
- 06: Meet Brushy One String, the One String Guitar Player Who Will Blow Your Mind (5)
- 06: Hear Charlie Watts Inimitable Isolated Drum Tracks on “Gimme Shelter,” “Beast of Burden,” and “Honky Tonk” (0)
- 06: 100 Days of Dante: Join the Largest Divine Comedy Reading Group in the World (Starts September 8) (2)
- 05: Google Data Analytics Certificate: 8 Courses Will Help Prepare Students for an Entry-Level Job in 6 Months (1)
- 03: ABBA Set to Release Their First Album in 40 Years: Hear Two New Tracks, and Get a Glimpse of Their Digital Live Show (1)
- 03: How Mushroom Time-Lapses Are Filmed: A Glimpse Into the Pioneering Time-Lapse Cinematography Behind the Netflix Documentary Fantastic Fungi (0)
- 02: The Brilliant 19th-Century Astronomical Drawings of Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (0)
- 02: The Velvet Underground: Get a First Glimpse of Todd Haynes’ Upcoming Documentary on the Most Influential Avant-Garde Rockers (0)
- 02: The Evolutionary History of Fat: Biologists Explain Why It’s Necessary for Our Survival & Why We’re Biased Against It (0)
- 02: What Is “Queering” in Video Game Design? Naomi Clark on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #103 (1)
- 01: What Makes Rodin’s The Thinker a Great Sculpture: An Introduction to Rodin Life, Craft & Iconic Work (1)
- 01: A 94-Year-Old English Teacher and Her Former Students Reunite in Their Old Classroom & Debate the Merits of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize (0)
- 01: Chinese Youth Announce That They’re “Lying Flat” and Resisting the Pressures of Modern Life (3)
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- 31: An Archaeologist Creates the Definitive Guide to Beer Cans (0)
- 31: Build Wooden Models of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Great Building: The Guggenheim, Unity Temple, Johnson Wax Headquarters & More (0)
- 31: Watch Lost Studio Footage of Brian Wilson Conducting “Good Vibrations,” The Beach Boys’ Brilliant “Pocket Symphony” (0)
- 30: The Black Film Archive: A New Site Highlights 200+ Noteworthy Black Films Made Between 1915-1979 (0)
- 30: Two Haruki Murakami Stories Adapted into Short Films: Watch Attack on a Bakery (1982) and A Girl, She Is 100% (1983) (0)
- 30: An 18-Year-Old Spends a Year Alone Building a Log Cabin in the Swedish Wilderness: Watch from Start to Finish (9)
- 27: Vintage Public Health Posters That Helped People Take Smart Precautions During Past Crises (0)
- 27: MoMA’s Online Courses Let You Study Modern & Contemporary Art and Earn a Certificate (2)
- 27: 17th Century Scientist Gives First Description of Alien Life: Hear Passages from Christiaan Huygens’ Cosmotheoros (1698) (0)
- 26: Benedict Cumberbatch Reads “the Best Cover Letter Ever Written” (1)
- 26: Medieval Scribes Discouraged Theft of Manuscripts by Adding Curses Threatening Death & Damnation to Their Pages (0)
- 26: The Life & Music of the Godmother of Rock and Roll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe (0)
- 25: Saying Goodbye to Charlie Watts (RIP), the Engine of the Rolling Stones for Half a Century (2)
- 25: How the COVID-19 Vaccines Could Be Created So Quickly: Two Animated Videos Explain the How mRNA Vaccines Were Developed, and How They Work (1)
- 25: A Harp Played with a Heavy Distortion Pedal (0)
- 24: Dying in the Name of Vaccine Freedom (8)
- 24: The Wicked Scene in Amadeus When Mozart Mocked the Talents of His Rival Antonio Salieri: How Much Does the Film Square with Reality? (6)
- 24: Watch Anthony Bourdain’s First Food-and-Travel Series A Cook’s Tour Free Online (2002-03) (1)
- 24: How Caffeine Fueled the Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution & the Modern World: An Introduction by Michael Pollan (1)
- 24: Philosophy vs. Improv: A New Podcast from The Partially Examined Life and Chicago Improv Studio (0)
- 23: 360 Degree Virtual Tours of the Hagia Sophia (2)
- 23: Become a Project Manager Without a College Degree with Google’s Project Management Certificate (7)
- 23: The Birth of Espresso: The Story Behind the Coffee Shots That Fuel Modern Life (2)
- 23: An Interactive Map of 530 Female Composers from Across the Globe (2)
- 20: Alan Alda: 3 Ways to Express Your Thoughts So That Everyone Will Understand You (2)
- 20: Hear Philip K. Dick’s Famous Metz Speech: “If You Find this World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others” (1977) (0)
- 20: Mattel’s Barbie Turns Women of Medicine, Including COVID Vaccine Developer, Into Dolls (2)
- 19: Songs That Use “Word Painting”: The Art of Creating Music That Sounds Like the Lyrics (0)
- 19: How Doctor Who First Started as a Family Educational TV Program (1963) (3)
- 19: Make Body Language Your Superpower: A 15-Minute Primer on Body Language & Public Speaking from Stanford Business School (0)
- 18: Watch The Weight of the Nation Free Online: An Emmy-Nominated HBO Documentary Films Series on Obesity (0)
- 18: Brian Eno Day: Hear 10 Hours of Radio Programming Featuring Brian Eno Talking About His Life & Career (1988) (0)
- 18: The Beatles’ 8 Pioneering Innovations: A Video Essay Exploring How the Fab Four Changed Pop Music (2)
- 18: Banksy’s Great British Spraycation: The Artist Spray Paints England’s Favorite Summer-Holiday Destinations (0)
- 17: Hear 45 Minutes of Funky Old Soundtracks from 1960s-70s Japanese Films & TV Shows (0)
- 17: Introduction to Ancient Greek History: A Free Online Course by Yale Historian Donald Kagan (RIP) (0)
- 17: Inside MK-Ultra, the CIA’s Secret Program That Used LSD to Achieve Mind Control (1953-1973) (0)
- 17: Listen to Plato Invent the Myth of Atlantis (360 B.C) (12)
- 16: Pompeii Rebuilt: A Tour of the Ancient City Before It Was Entombed by Mount Vesuvius (0)
- 16: Take a Trip to the LSD Museum, the Largest Collection of “Blotter Art” in the World (3)
- 16: The Sound of Subways Around the World: A Global Collection of Subway Door Closing Announcements, Beeps & Chimes (1)
- 13: Carl Sagan Answers the Ultimate Question: Is There a God? (1994) (2)
- 13: 200 Comic Book Adaptations of Classic Novels Created (1941-1971): Frankenstein, Moby Dick, Hamlet & More (0)
- 13: Watch an Exquisite 19th Century Coffee Maker in Action (2)
- 12: Why Civilization Collapsed in 1177 BC: Watch Classicist Eric Cline’s Lecture That Has Already Garnered 5.5 Million Views (4)
- 12: Hear Sherlock Holmes Stories Read by The Great Christopher Lee (3)
- 12: Every Christmas, Peruvians Living in the Andes Settle Their Scores at Fist-Fighting Festivals (0)
- 11: What Ancient Greece Really Looked Like: See Reconstructions of the Temple of Hadrian, Curetes Street & the Fountain of Trajan (5)
- 11: Kurt Vonnegut’s Recipes in Deadeye Dick: Polka-Dot Brownies, Linzer Torte & Haitian Banana Soup (0)
- 11: Watch Venice’s New $7 Billion Flood Defense System in Action (1)
- 10: Hear Vincent Price Star in a Classic Radio Adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 (0)
- 10: Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088 (0)
- 10: How Pulp Fiction ’s Dance Scene Paid Artistic Tribute to the Classic Dance Scene in Fellini’s 8½ (1)
- 09: Take a Journey Through 933 Paintings by Salvador Dalí & Watch His Signature Surrealism Emerge (0)
- 09: What Makes Picasso’s Guernica a Great Painting?: Explore the Anti-Fascist Mural That Became a Worldwide Anti-War Symbol (2)
- 09: A Charlie Watts-Centric View of the Rolling Stones: Watch Martin Scorsese’s Footage of Charlie & the Band Performing “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and “All Down the Line” (4)
- 06: The Only Footage of Bruce Lee Fighting for Real (1967) (53)
- 06: Watch the First Two Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981) (2)
- 06: The First Museum Dedicated to Mary Shelley & Her Literary Creation, Frankenstein, Opens in Bath, England (0)
- 05: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Changed Astronomy Forever; Her Ph.D. Advisor Won the Nobel Prize for It (10)
- 05: Footage of Cities Around the World in the 1890s: London, Tokyo, New York, Venice, Moscow & More (0)
- 04: When Mahatma Gandhi Met Charlie Chaplin (1931) (0)
- 04: Is the Viral “Red Dress” Music Video a Sociological Experiment? Performance Art? Or Something Else? (1)
- 04: Carl Jung Offers an Introduction to His Psychological Thought in a 3-Hour Interview (1957) (0)
- 04: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast — Season One Wrap: What Have We Learned? (#102) (0)
- 03: How West Magazine Created a Southern-California Pop-Culture Aesthetic with the Help of Milton Glaser, Gahan Wilson, and Others (1967-1972) (1)
- 03: How Steven Van Zandt Organized the Sun City Boycott and Helped Catalyze the Anti-Apartheid Movement (1985) (1)
- 03: What Made Marcel Duchamp’s Famous Urinal Art–and an Inventive Prank (0)
- 03: Watch Beautiful Footage of the Rarely Seen Glass Octopus (0)
- 02: 1960s Schoolchildren Imagine Life in the Year 2000: Overpopulation, Mass Unemployment, Robot Courts, Rising Seas & Beyond (2)
- 02: The Cramps Legendary Concert at a California Psychiatric Hospital Gets Revisited in the New Documentary, We Were There to Be There: Watch It Online (4)
- 02: Take an Intellectual Odyssey with a Free MIT Course on Douglas Hofstadter’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (7)
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- 30: 757 Episodes of the Classic TV Game Show What’s My Line?: Watch Eleanor Roosevelt, Louis Armstrong, Salvador Dali & More (1)
- 30: Don Felder Plays “Hotel California” at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with a Double-Neck Guitar (3)
- 30: Watch the Live TV Adaptation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Most Controversial TV Drama of Its Time (1954) (0)
- 29: A Gallery of 1,800 Gigapixel Images of Classic Paintings: See Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring, Van Gogh’s Starry Night & Other Masterpieces in Close Detail (3)
- 29: An Animated History of Writing: From Ancient Egypt to Modern Writing Systems (0)
- 29: The Sounds of Space: An Interplanetary Sonic Journey (0)
- 28: Are We All Getting More Depressed?: A New Study Analyzing 14 Million Books, Written Over 160 Years, Finds the Language of Depression Steadily Rising (0)
- 28: Discover the Stettheimer Dollhouse: The 12-Room Dollhouse Featuring Miniature, Original Modernist Art by Marcel Duchamp (1)
- 28: Tony Hawk Breaks Down Skateboarding Into 21 Levels of Difficulty: From Easy to Complex (0)
- 28: The “Conjuring” Film Universe Digested — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #101 (0)
- 27: Frida Kahlo: The Complete Paintings Collects the Painter’s Entire Body of Work in a 600-Page, Large-Format Book (0)
- 27: How ABBA Won Eurovision and Became International Pop Stars (1974) (0)
- 27: The Making of a Violin from Start to Finish: Watch a French Luthier Practice a Time-Honored Craft (0)
- 26: What Makes Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks a Great Painting?: A Video Essay (1)
- 25: Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600: A Free Online Course from Yale University (0)
- 23: Sylvia Plath’s Tarot Cards (Which Influenced the Poems in Ariel) Were Just Sold for $207,000 (1)
- 23: How The Pink Panther Painted The Mona Lisa’s Smile: Watch the 1975 Animation, “Pink Da Vinci” (0)
- 22: The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Oldest-Known Work of Literature in World History (0)
- 22: Discover The Grammar of Ornament, One of the Great Color Books & Design Masterpieces of the 19th Century (0)
- 22: When David Bowie Played Andy Warhol in Julian Schnabel’s Film, Basquiat (1)
- 22: What’s the Role of a Director in Constructing Comedy? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #100 (0)
- 21: The Aesthetic of Evil: A Video Essay Explores Evil in the Films of Bergman, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Scorsese & Beyond (0)
- 21: Explore Divine Comedy Digital, a New Digital Database That Collects Seven Centuries of Art Inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy (0)
- 21: Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Artist (0)
- 20: They Might Be Giants’ John Linnell Releases an EP of Songs in Latin (0)
- 20: The Meaning of Hieronymus Bosch’s Spellbinding Triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights (0)
- 20: When Rage Against the Machine Interviewed Noam Chomsky (1999) (1)
- 19: Neil Young Plays “Hey, Hey, My, My” with Devo: Watch a Classic Scene from the Improvised Movie Human Highway (1980) (3)
- 19: Watch 15 Hours of The Pink Panther for Free (0)
- 19: An Introduction to Japanese Kabuki Theatre, Featuring 20th-Century Masters of the Form (1964) (1)
- 16: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: A Deluxe New Art Book Presents Hokusai’s Masterpiece, Including “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” (1)
- 16: A Dancer Pays a Gravity-Defying Tribute to Claude Debussy (1)
- 16: How American Bandstand Changed American Culture: Revisit Scenes from the Iconic Music Show (0)
- 15: Hear Isabella Rossellini Sing “Blue Velvet” in Its Entirety (0)
- 15: Discover Japan’s Oldest Surviving Cookbook Ryori Monogatari (1643) (0)
- 15: B.F. Skinner Demonstrates His “Teaching Machine,” the 1950s Automated Learning Device (1)
- 15: Do We Outgrow the Music of Our Youth? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #99 (2)
- 14: Carl Sagan Tells Johnny Carson What’s Wrong with Star Wars: “They’re All White” & There’s a “Large Amount of Human Chauvinism in It” (1978) (13)
- 14: Andy Warhol’s Art Explained: What Makes His Iconic Campbell’s Soup Cans & Marilyn Monroe Diptych Art? (0)
- 14: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases a Super Creepy Version of “Creep” (0)
- 13: What the Eagles’ “Hotel California” Really Means (10)
- 13: An Introduction to Nicolas Bourbaki, One of the Most Influential Mathematicians of All Time … Who Never Actually Lived (0)
- 13: Watch Blondie Perform a Classic Concert During The Breakout Year: “Dreamin,” “One Way Or Another,” “Heart of Glass” & More (1979) (0)
- 12: A Billion Years of Tectonic-Plate Movement in 40 Seconds: A Quick Glimpse of How Our World Took Shape (1)
- 12: Hear Louis Armstrong’s Last Reel-to-Reel Tape, Made Hours Before His Death (1971) (3)
- 12: The Life & Art of Hilma Af Klint: A Short Art History Lesson on the Pioneering Abstract Artist (1)
- 09: Hunter Thompson Explains What Gonzo Journalism Is, and How He Writes It (1975) (1)
- 09: Leon Theremin Advertises the First Commercial Production Run of His Revolutionary Electronic Instrument (1930) (0)
- 09: Eastern Philosophy Explained: From the Buddha to Confucius and Haiku to the Tea Ceremony (1)
- 08: Watch L’Inferno (1911), Italy’s First Feature Film and Perhaps the Finest Adaptation of Dante’s Classic (0)
- 08: Watch Footage of the Allies Rolling Through a Defeated German Town in April, 1945: Restored & Colorized with AI (3)
- 08: Watch the Tate Modern Restore Mark Rothko’s Vandalized Painting, Black on Maroon: 18 Months of Work Condensed Into 17 Minutes (0)
- 07: How Caravaggio Painted: A Re-Creation of the Great Master’s Process (0)
- 07: Hear Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos Played on Original Baroque Instruments (0)
- 07: Watch Artisans Make Hand-Carved Championship Chess Sets: Each Knight Takes Two Hours (0)
- 06: Hiroshige, Master of Japanese Woodblock Prints, Creates a Guide to Making Shadow Puppets for Children (1842) (0)
- 06: Why Finland & Denmark Are Happier Than the United States (0)
- 06: The Intimacy of Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portraits: A Video Essay (0)
- 06: Storytelling and Race in Captain America — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #98 (0)
- 05: How Ramen Became the Currency of Choice in Prison, Beating Out Cigarettes (1)
- 05: Quentin Tarantino Releases His First Novel: A Pulpy Novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (0)
- 05: Discover the 1820’s Color-Coded System for Memorizing Historical Events, Which Resembled Modern Art (1820) (0)
- 05: Moralities of Everyday Life: A Free Online Course from Yale University (0)
- 02: The Conspiracy Behind the Iconic Statue, the Venus de Milo (0)
- 02: Haruki Murakami’s Daily Routine: Up at 4:00 a.m., 5-6 Hours of Writing, Then a 10K Run (2)
- 01: Alfred Hitchcock Explains the Difference Between Suspense & Surprise: Give the Audience Some Information & Leave the Rest to Their Imagination (0)
- 01: Vincent Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”: Why It’s a Great Painting in 15 Minutes (0)
- 01: Klaus Kinski Has a Tantrum on the Set of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo (0)
- 01: Flash Sale: Get 75% Off Udacity’s Online Courses and Nanodegree Programs (Through July 13) (0)
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- 30: A First Look at How Tony Soprano Became Tony Soprano: Watch the New Trailer for The Many Saints of Newark (0)
- 30: How Jaco Pastorius Invented the Electric Bass Solo & Changed Musical History (1976) (2)
- 30: Watch 194 Films by Georges Méliès, the Filmmaker Who “Invented Everything” (All in Chronological Order) (1)
- 29: The Pulp Tarot: A New Tarot Deck Inspired by Midcentury Pulp Illustrations (8)
- 29: The Making of a Marble Sculpture: See Every Stage of the Process, from the Quarry to the Studio (1)
- 29: Take 193 Free Tech and Business Courses Online at Udacity: Product Design, Programming, A.I., Marketing & More (0)
- 28: Michelangelo’s David: The Fascinating Story Behind the Renaissance Marble Creation (0)
- 28: The Acoustics of Stonehenge: Researchers Build a Model to Understand How Sound Reverberated within the Ancient Structure (0)
- 28: This Is “The End”: A Video Exploration of The Doors’ Existential Epic (6)
- 25: The Long-Lost Pieces of Rembrandt’s Night Watch Get Reconstructed with Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 25: How Radical Gardeners Took Back New York City (0)
- 25: Tom Jones Covers Talking Heads “Burning Down the House”–and Burns Down the House (1999) (3)
- 24: The Artistic & Mystical World of Tarot: See Decks by Salvador Dalí, Aleister Crowley, H.R. Giger & More (0)
- 24: 1540 Monet Paintings in a Two Hour Video (0)
- 24: Every Roman Emperor: A Video Timeline Moving from Augustus to the Byzantine Empire’s Last Ruler, Constantine XI (3)
- 23: Hear Demos & Outtakes of Joni Mitchell’s Blue on the 50th Anniversary of the Classic Album (0)
- 23: The Story of the MiniDisc, Sony’s 1990s Audio Format That’s Gone But Not Forgotten (7)
- 23: The Captivating Art of Restoring Vintage Guitars (0)
- 22: David Bowie on Why It’s Crazy to Make Art–and We Do It Anyway (1998) (2)
- 22: AI & X-Rays Recover Lost Artworks Underneath Paintings by Picasso & Modigliani (0)
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- 25: How the Survivors of Pompeii Escaped Mount Vesuvius’ Deadly Eruption: A TED-Ed Animation Tells the Story (0)
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- 17: Watch Accurate Recreations of Medieval Italian Longsword Fighting Techniques, All Based on a Manuscript from 1404 (0)
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- 19: Time-Lapse Video Reveals Humanity’s Impact on the Earth Since 1984 (0)
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- 16: Listen to Wikipedia: A Web Site That Turns Every Wikipedia Edit Into Ambient Music in Real Time (1)
- 16: Udacity Running a Flash Sale (75% Off) Through the End of March 16 (0)
- 16: Watch the Trippy 1970s Animated Film Quasi at the Quackadero: Voted One of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time (0)
- 16: What are Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)? And How Can a Work of Digital Art Sell for $69 Million (3)
- 15: The Story Behind the Iconic Bass-Smashing Photo on the Clash’s London Calling (1)
- 15: Brian Eno Explains the Origins of Ambient Music (4)
- 15: The Letters of Mozart’s Sister Maria Anna Get Transformed into Music (0)
- 14: Yo-Yo Ma Plays an Impromptu Performance in Vaccine Clinic After Receiving 2nd Dose (0)
- 12: All Praise Lou Ottens: The Inventor of the Cassette Tape Dies at Age 94 (2)
- 12: The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge: Part 2 (1)
- 12: Google & Coursera Launch Career Certificates That Prepare Students for Jobs in 6 Months: Data Analytics, Project Management and UX Design (0)
- 12: Watch Cartoonist Lynda Barry’s Two-Hour Drawing Workshop (0)
- 11: How Museum Gift Shops Shape the Way We Look at Art (0)
- 11: Rare Vincent van Gogh Painting Goes on Public Display for the First Time: Explore the 1887 Painting Online (0)
- 11: Intimate Live Performances of Radiohead, Sonic Youth, the White Stripes, PJ Harvey & More: No Host, No Audience, Just Pure Live Music (0)
- 10: Saturday Night Live’s Very First Sketch: Watch John Belushi Launch SNL in October, 1975 (1)
- 10: A Spellbinding Drone Journey Through a Bowling Alley (0)
- 10: Guitarist Gary Clark, Jr. Plays Searing Acoustic Blues in a Spontaneous Jam Session (1)
- 10: The Iconic Dance Scene from Hellzapoppin’ Presented in Living Color with Artificial Intelligence (1941) (0)
- 10: Why Is the Debut Disney+ Marvel TV Show a Tribute to Classic Sitcoms? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #85 on WandaVision (0)
- 09: How Looney Tunes & Other Classic Cartoons Helped Americans Become Musically Literate (1)
- 09: John Cleese’s Very Favorite Comedy Sketches (0)
- 09: A Starling Murmuration Magically Makes the Shape of a Bird (1)
- 09: Compare the Original Trailers of Classic Films with Their Modern Updates: Casablanca, Dog Day Afternoon & The Exorcist (1)
- 08: Alexander Calder’s Archive Goes Online: Explore 1400 Works of Art by the Modernist Sculptor (0)
- 08: B.B. King Plays “The Thrill is Gone” with Slash, Ron Wood & Other Legends (0)
- 08: Metallica Plays Antarctica, Setting a World Record as the First Band to Play All 7 Continents: Watch the Full Concert Online (2)
- 08: A Short Biography of Keith Haring Told with Comic Book Illustrations & Music (0)
- 05: The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross & Banksy: Watch Banksy Paint a Mural on the Jail That Once Housed Oscar Wilde (4)
- 05: “The Cinematic Universe”: A Video Essay on How Films Cinematize Cities & Places, from Manhattan to Nashville, Rome Open City to Taipei Story (0)
- 05: Watch 12 Seasons of the Dick Cavett Show, 18 Seasons of Johnny Carson & Many Other Classic Shows on Shout! Factory (1)
- 04: Haruki Murakami Has Created New T-Shirts Featuring Words & Imagery from Norwegian Wood, 1Q84 and More (0)
- 04: Who Built the Egyptian Pyramids & How Did They Do It?: New Archeological Evidence Busts Ancient Myths (129)
- 04: The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge: Part 1 (2)
- 03: When Sci-Fi Legend Ursula K. Le Guin Translated the Chinese Classic, the Tao Te Ching (5)
- 03: The Last Interview Book Series Features the Final Words of Cultural Icons: Borges to Bowie, Philip K. Dick to Frida Kahlo (0)
- 03: Where Did the Metal Scream Come From? And How Do Metal Vocalists Avoid Destroying Their Vocal Cords? (5)
- 03: Why the Flood of Musician Memoirs? An Exploration by Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #84 (0)
- 02: The Little-Known Female Scientists Who Mapped 400,000 Stars Over a Century Ago: An Introduction to the “Harvard Computers” (1)
- 02: A List of 132 Radical, Mind-Expanding Books from Rage Against the Machine (11)
- 02: What Are the Real Causes of Zoom Fatigue? And What Are the Possible Solutions?: New Research from Stanford Offers Answers (3)
- 01: Why Putin Wants Alexei Navalny Dead (2)
- 01: The Exquisite, Ephemeral Paper Cuttings of Hans Christian Andersen (2)
- 01: Hear Brian Eno Reinvent Pachelbel’s Canon (1975) (0)
- 01: When Jack Johnson, the First Black Heavyweight Champion, Defeated Jim Jeffries & the Footage Was Banned Around the World (1910) (1)
- February 2021 (76)
- 26: Radiohead Ballets: Watch Ballets Choreographed Creatively to the Music of Radiohead (4)
- 26: Watch The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys, a Free Film Documenting the Making of the 1980s Super Group (8)
- 26: Download 280 Pictographs That Put Japanese Culture Into a New Visual Language: They’re Free for the Public to Use (0)
- 25: Flim: a New AI-Powered Movie-Screenshot Search Engine (1)
- 25: Journey’s Road Crew Performs a Pretty Flawless Version of “Separate Ways” (6)
- 25: René Magritte’s Early Art Deco Posters (1924-1927) (0)
- 24: RIP Radical Poet and Revolutionary Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) (1)
- 24: The Complete Works of Hilma af Klint Get Published for the First Time in a Beautiful, Seven-Volume Collection (0)
- 24: Watch Badiou, the First Feature-Length Film on France’s Most Famous Living Philosopher (2)
- 24: Watch Orson Welles’ Intoxicating Wine Commercials That Became an 80s Cultural Phenomenon (2)
- 24: Increasing Disabled/Other-Abled Representation in Media — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #83 (0)
- 23: The Roman Roads of Gaul Visualized as a Modern Subway Map (0)
- 23: The 69 Pages of Writing Advice Denis Johnson Collected from Flannery O’Connor, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Hunter Thompson, Werner Herzog & Many Others (0)
- 23: Anthony Bourdain Talks About the Big Break That Changed His Life–at Age 44 (0)
- 23: The Oldest Known Globe to Depict the New World Was Engraved on an Ostrich Egg, Maybe by Leonardo da Vinci (1504) (0)
- 23: Bruce Springsteen & Barack Obama Release a New Podcast, “Renegades: Born in the USA” (2)
- 22: The Life & Death of an Espresso Shot in Super Slow Motion (1)
- 22: Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly Gives 36 Lectures on Our Future World: Education, Movies, Robots, Autonomous Cars & More (0)
- 22: How the Internet Archive Digitizes 3,500 Books a Day–the Hard Way, One Page at a Time (0)
- 22: De-Stress with 30 Minutes of Relaxing Visuals from Director Hayao Miyazaki (1)
- 19: Witness the Birth of Kermit the Frog in Jim Henson’s Live TV Show, Sam and Friends (1955) (1)
- 19: Paul Simon Deconstructs “Mrs. Robinson” (1970) (1)
- 18: 4,000 Priceless Scrolls, Texts & Papers From the University of Tokyo Have Been Digitized & Put Online (0)
- 18: The Surface of Mars Shown in Stunning 4K Resolution (7)
- 18: Watch Chick Corea (RIP) Perform Intimate Acoustic Performances with Bobby McFerrin, Gary Burton, Hiromi Uehara & Others (0)
- 18: The Open Syllabus Project Visualizes the 1,000,000+ Books Most Frequently Assigned in College Courses (1)
- 18: Why Does The Karate Kid Persist as the New Cobra Kai? A Critical Consideration by Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast (#82) (0)
- 17: Peter Gabriel Re-Records “Biko,” His Anti-Apartheid Protest Song, with Musicians Around the World (0)
- 17: The Birth of Hip Hop: How DJ Kool Herc Used Turntables to Change the Musical World (1973) (0)
- 17: Saint John Coltrane: The San Francisco Church Built On A Love Supreme (1)
- 16: Paul Simon Tells the Story of How He Wrote “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970) (9)
- 16: Alfred Hitchcock Meets Jorge Luis Borges Borges in Cold War America: Watch Double Take (2009) Free Online (0)
- 16: Archaeologists Find the Earliest Work of “Abstract Art,” Dating Back 73,000 Years (1)
- 16: Travel from Rotterdam to Amsterdam in 10 Minutes by Boat: A 4k Timelapse (0)
- 15: The Color That May Have Killed Napoleon: Scheele’s Green (0)
- 15: Akira Kurosawa Appears in a Rare Television & Tells Dick Cavett about His Love of Old Tokyo & His Samurai Lineage (1981) (1)
- 15: Hear a Prehistoric Conch Shell Musical Instrument Played for the First Time in 18,000 Years (0)
- 14: Watch the Food for Love Benefit Concert: David Byrne, The Chicks & Many More Raise Money for New Mexico Food Banks (0)
- 12: Take a Road Trip Across America with Cartoonist Lynda Barry in the 90s Documentary, Grandma’s Way Out Party (2)
- 12: Watch “The Stroke,” a Hand-Animated Music Video Where the Visuals Came First & the Improvised Music Second (1)
- 12: Why Public Transit Sucks in the United States: Four Videos Tell the Story (5)
- 11: Watch Prince Perform “Purple Rain” in the Rain in His Transcendent Super Bowl Half-Time Show (2007) (3)
- 11: A Tour of U.S. Accents: Bostonian, Philadelphese, Gullah Creole & Other Intriguing Dialects (0)
- 11: Behold All 42 Maps from Jules Verne’s Extraordinary Voyages, the Author’s 54-Volume Collection of “Geographical Fictions” (0)
- 11: Radio vs. Podcasting: A Discussion with Jason Bentley (KCRW, The Backstory) on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #81 (0)
- 10: Monkey Sees A Magic Trick (2)
- 10: How the Food We Eat Affects Our Brain: Learn About the “MIND Diet” (1)
- 10: Hear an Ancient Chinese Historian Describe The Roman Empire (and Other Voices of the Past) (3)
- 10: The “Academic Tarot”: 22 Major Arcana Cards Representing Life in the Academic Humanities Under COVID-19 (0)
- 10: The Animations That Changed Cinema: The Groundbreaking Legacies of Prince Achmed, Akira, The Iron Giant & More (1)
- 09: How Jazz Became the “Mother of Hip Hop” (4)
- 09: Alan Watts Reads “One of the Greatest Things Carl Jung Ever Wrote” (3)
- 09: A New Database Will Document Every Slave House in the U.S.: Discover the “Saving Slave Houses Project” (1)
- 09: How Norman Rockwell Used Photographs to Create His Famous Paintings: See Side-by-Side Comparisons (9)
- 08: The Magic of the Beach Boys’ Harmonies: Hear Isolated Vocals from “Sloop John B.,” “God Only Knows,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” & Other Pet Sounds Classics (6)
- 08: A New Yorker Cartoonist Explains How to Draw Literary Cartoons (1)
- 08: The Breathtaking Courage of Harriet Tubman: An Animated History Lesson Speaks to Her Place on the $20 Bill (0)
- 08: Watch a Korean Master Craftsman Make a Kimchi Pot by Hand, All According to Ancient Tradition (0)
- 07: Little Kid Merrily Grooves to ZZ Top While Waiting for the Bus (1)
- 05: David Gilmour, David Crosby & Graham Nash Perform the Pink Floyd Classic, “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” (2006) (2)
- 05: The History of American Newspapers Has Been Digitized: Explore 114 Years of Editor & Publisher, “the Bible of the Newspaper Industry” (0)
- 05: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki Celebrated in a Glorious Concert Arranged by Film Composer Joe Hisaishi (1)
- 04: All 80 Issues of the Influential Zine Punk Planet Are Now Online & Ready for Download at the Internet Archive (0)
- 04: How Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” Created the “Blueprint for All Electronic Dance Music Today” (1977) (6)
- 04: Life Lessons From 100-Year-Olds: Timeless Advice in a Short Film (1)
- 03: The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson & Beatles Producer George Martin Break Down “God Only Knows,” the “Greatest Song Ever Written” (9)
- 03: How Vaccines Improved Our World In One Graphic (1)
- 03: The Bauhaus Chess Set Where the Form of the Pieces Artfully Show Their Function (1922) (7)
- 02: Do We Need Yet More Films About Time Loops? A Pretty Much Pop Discussion (#80) of Groundhog Day and its Descendents (1)
- 02: Tony Bennett Duets with Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse & Other Musicians, Passing on the Great American Songbook (0)
- 02: Watch 36 Short Animations That Tell the Origin Stories of Mexico’s Indigenous Peoples in Their Own Languages (0)
- 02: Japanese Violinist Covers Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption”: Metal Meets Classical Again (0)
- 02: Listen to the Never-Heard Song Written for Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (2)
- 01: Werner Herzog Discovers the Ecstasy of Skateboarding: “That’s Kind of My People” (0)
- 01: The Internet Archive Now Digitizing 1,000,000+ Objects from a Massive Cinema History Library (0)
- 01: When the Frequency for Tuning Instruments Became a Grand Conspiracy Theory (3)
- January 2021 (74)
- 29: YInMn Blue, the First Shade of Blue Discovered in 200 Years, Is Now Available for Artists (3)
- 29: The First American Cookbook: Sample Recipes from American Cookery (1796) (4)
- 29: The Great Gatsby Is Now in the Public Domain and There’s a New Graphic Novel (1)
- 28: PBS American Masters Archive Releases 1,000+ Hours of Uncut, Never-Before-Seen Interviews: Patti Smith, David Bowie, Neil Young & More (0)
- 28: The Life Cycle of a Cup of Coffee: The Journey from Coffee Bean, to Coffee Cup (0)
- 28: Watch the Pilot of Breaking Bad with a Chemistry Professor: How Sound Was the Science? (0)
- 28: The Formula for The Coen Brothers/Noah Hawley’s Fargo – Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #79 (0)
- 27: Watch John Cage Play His “Silent” 4’33” in Harvard Square, Presented by Nam June Paik (1973) (0)
- 27: Watch Amanda Gorman Read “The Hill We Climb,” “Making Mountains As We Run,” “Fury and Faith,” and More (3)
- 27: Algerian Cave Paintings Suggest Humans Did Magic Mushrooms 9,000 Years Ago (2)
- 26: How Richard Feynman’s Diagrams Revolutionized Physics (0)
- 26: Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova Tells Protestors What to Do–and Not Do–If Arrested by Authoritarian Police (1)
- 26: Rick Steves’ Europe: Binge Watch 11 Seasons of America’s Favorite Traveler Free Online (0)
- 25: A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens (5)
- 25: Resilience Skills in a Time of Uncertainty: A Free Course from the University of Pennsylvania (0)
- 25: Cocktails with a Curator: The Frick Pairs Weekly Art History Lectures with Cocktail Recipes (0)
- 25: Jimi Hendrix Revisits His Searing Performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner”: The Dick Cavett Show (September 9, 1969) (1)
- 22: A 10 Billion Pixel Scan of Vermeer’s Masterpiece Girl with a Pearl Earring: Explore It Online (1)
- 22: How Quentin Tarantino Shoots a Film at 3 Different Budget Levels: Reservoir Dogs ($1 Million), Pulp Fiction ($8 Million), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ($95 Million) (0)
- 22: When the Grateful Dead Performed on Hugh Hefner’s Playboy After Dark & Secretly Dosed Everyone With LSD (1969) (1)
- 21: “The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”: The 1927 Solvay Council Conference, Featuring Einstein, Bohr, Curie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger & More (3)
- 21: How to Make a Savile Row Suit: A Short Documentary from the Museum of Modern Art (0)
- 21: Innovative Pinscreen Animations of Kafka’s “Before the Law”, Gogol’s “The Nose” & Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” (1932-1972) (0)
- 21: The Renewed Popularity of Chess and The Queen’s Gambit: Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion #78 with Chess Expert J.J. Lang (0)
- 20: Prince’s First Television Interview (1985) (0)
- 20: Rarely-Seen Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy Are Now Free Online, Courtesy of the Uffizi Gallery (0)
- 20: Brâncuși Captures His Sculpture & Life on Film: Watch Rare Footage Shot Between 1923-1939 (0)
- 19: Ursula K. Le Guin Stamp Getting Released by the US Postal Service (1)
- 19: How Levi’s 501 Jeans Became Iconic: A Short Documentary Featuring John Baldessari, Henry Rollins, Lee Ranaldo & More (0)
- 19: The Deadliest Garden in the World: Visit Alnwick’s Poison Garden in Northumberland, England (3)
- 19: Wilhelm Reich’s Orgone Energy Accumulator Was Beloved by William S. Burroughs and Banned by the FDA: Find Plans to Build the Controversial Device Online (3)
- 18: A Magical Look Inside the Painting Process of Studio Ghibli Artist Kazuo Oga (0)
- 18: A 3,000-Year-Old Painter’s Palette from Ancient Egypt, with Traces of the Original Colors Still In It (3)
- 18: What Can You Do About QAnon?: A Short Take from Documentary Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson (7)
- 18: An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper, Without Any Cutting (0)
- 16: MIT’s Introduction to Economics: A Free Online Course (1)
- 15: Take a New Virtual Reality Tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2)
- 15: The Anti-Gluttony Door in Portugal’s Alcobaça Monastery Shamed Plump Monks to Start Fasting (2)
- 15: David Lynch’s Projection Instructions for Mulholland Drive (2001) (0)
- 14: Why Should You Read Toni Morrison’s Beloved? An Animated Video Makes the Case (0)
- 14: The CIA Has Declassified 2,780 Pages of UFO-Related Documents, and They’re Now Free to Download (6)
- 14: How the Bicycle Accelerated the Women’s Rights Movement (Circa 1890) (1)
- 14: Should You Race Back to Theaters When It’s Safe? Pretty Much Pop: Culture Podcast (#77) on the Big Screen Experience (0)
- 13: How to Talk with a Conspiracy Theorist: What the Experts Recommend (6)
- 13: A 16th-Century Astronomy Book Featured “Analog Computers” to Calculate the Shape of the Moon, the Position of the Sun, and More (0)
- 13: Social Psychologist Erich Fromm Diagnoses Why People Wear a Mask of Happiness in Modern Society (1977) (0)
- 12: Peanuts Plays Yes’ “Roundabout” (0)
- 12: A Look Inside William S. Burroughs’ Bunker (0)
- 12: How Lava Lamps Help Secure the Internet (1)
- 12: Discover the First Illustrated Book Printed in English, William Caxton’s Mirror of the World (1481) (0)
- 11: New Documentary Sisters with Transistors Tells the Story of Electronic Music’s Female Pioneers (0)
- 11: See Devo Perform Live for the Very First Time (Kent State University, 1973) (2)
- 11: 300 Rarely-Seen, Risqué Drawings by Andy Warhol Published in the New Book, Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings (1950–1962) (0)
- 10: Arnold Schwarzenegger Reflects on the Parallels Between Trumpism & Nazism, and How We Can Save Our Democracy (3)
- 09: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend Democracy from Authoritarianism: A Timely List from Yale Historian Timothy Snyder (0)
- 08: Behold an Interactive Online Edition of Elizabeth Twining’s Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants (1868) (1)
- 08: Flair Magazine: The Short-Lived, Highly-Influential Magazine That Still Inspires Designers Today (1950) (0)
- 08: Fonts in Use: Enter a Giant Archive of Typography, Featuring 12,618 Typefaces (6)
- 07: Thelonious Monk’s List of 25 Tips for Musicians (4)
- 07: An Animated Introduction to Baruch Spinoza: The “Philosopher’s Philosopher” (0)
- 07: How to Draw the Buddha: Explore an Elegant Tibetan Manual from the 18th-Century (0)
- 07: Wonder Woman 1984 in Context – Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #76 (0)
- 06: The 25th Amendment: An Introduction (1)
- 06: The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Has Digitized 709,000 Works of Art, Including Famous Works by Rembrandt and Vermeer (0)
- 06: How Tibetan Monks Use Meditation to Raise Their Peripheral Body Temperature 16-17 Degrees (4)
- 06: Animation Pioneer Lotte Reiniger Adapts Mozart’s The Magic Flute into an All-Silhouette Short Film (1935) (2)
- 05: When Iggy Pop Published an Essay, “Caesar Lives,” in an Academic Journal about His Love for Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1995) (1)
- 05: Discover J.R.R. Tolkien’s Little-Known and Hand-Illustrated Children’s Book, Mr. Bliss (0)
- 05: Rome’s Colosseum Will Get a New Retractable Floor by 2023 — Just as It Had in Ancient Times (27)
- 04: Discover Tokyo’s Museum Dedicated to Parasites: A Unique and Disturbing Institution (1)
- 04: Dial-a-Poem: The Groundbreaking Phone Service That Let People Hear Poems Read by Patti Smith, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg & More (1968) (3)
- 04: Did Beethoven Use a Broken Metronome When Composing His String Quartets? Scientists & Musicians Try to Solve the Centuries-Old Mystery (1)
- 01: What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2021: The Great Gatsby & Mrs. Dalloway, Music by Irving Berlin & Duke Ellington, Comedies by Buster Keaton, and More (1)
- 01: Antonio Gramsci Writes a Column, “I Hate New Year’s Day” (January 1, 1916) (0)
- December 2020 (90)
- 31: Studio Ghibli Makes 1,178 Images Free to Download from My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away & Other Beloved Animated Films (2)
- 31: Technology Arbitrage: Amazon is Selling Airpods Pro Headphones for $50 Less Than Apple (1)
- 31: When Queen’s Freddie Mercury Teamed Up with Opera Superstar Montserrat Caballé in 1988: A Meeting of Two Powerful Voices (9)
- 31: The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants: Discover the 1977 Illustrated Guide Created by Harvard’s Groundbreaking Ethnobotanist Richard Evan Schultes (4)
- 30: The Essential Bradbury: The 25 Finest Stories by the Beloved Writer (0)
- 30: Archaeologists Discover an Ancient Roman Snack Bar in the Ruins of Pompeii (1)
- 30: How Martin Luther King Jr. Got C’s in Public Speaking–Before Becoming a Straight-A Student & a World Class Orator (3)
- 30: Your 15 Favorite Posts on Open Culture This Year–and What a Year It Has Been (0)
- 30: Why Has The Great British Baking Show Conquered America? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #75 w/ Stephen Carlile (from Broadway’s The Lion King) (0)
- 29: Listen to James Baldwin’s Record Collection in a 478-track, 32-Hour Spotify Playlist (0)
- 29: When Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin Met and Became Fast Famous Friends (1930) (2)
- 29: The Power of Pulp Fiction’s Dance Scene, Explained by Choreographers and Even John Travolta Himself (3)
- 28: The David Bowie Monopoly Game Is Here: Advance to GO and Collect 200 Hunky Dorys! (1)
- 28: The Ultimate 80s Medley: A Nostalgia-Inducing Performance of A-Ha, Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel, Van Halen & More (1)
- 28: In 1896, a French Cartoonist Predicted Our Socially-Distanced Zoom Holiday Gatherings (1)
- 25: Revisit Kate Bush’s Peculiar Christmas Special, Featuring Peter Gabriel (1979) (1)
- 25: Langston Hughes’ Homemade Christmas Cards From 1950 (0)
- 25: Stream 48 Hours of Vintage Christmas Radio Broadcasts Featuring Orson Welles, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart, Ida Lupino & More (1930-1959) (2)
- 24: When Our World Became a de Chirico Painting: How the Avant-Garde Painter Foresaw the Empty City Streets of 2020 (0)
- 24: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Performs The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”: To Help Lift You Out of the COVID Gloom (3)
- 24: How Jan van Eyck’s Masterpiece, the Ghent Altarpiece, Became the Most Stolen Work of Art in History (0)
- 23: David Chase Talks Sopranos for 90 Minutes on the Talking Sopranos Podcast (0)
- 23: Carl Sagan on the Importance of Choosing Wisely What You Read (Even If You Read a Book a Week) (1)
- 23: Octavia Butler’s Four Rules for Predicting the Future (0)
- 23: Tune Into Tree.fm: An Online Radio Station That Streams the Soothing Sounds of Forests from Around the World (2)
- 23: What Has the Internet Done to Comedy? A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion (#74) (1)
- 22: Robert Fripp & Toyah Willcox Sing the Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy in the UK” While Dressed as Santa and Elf (6)
- 22: Bill Gates Picks 5 Good Books for a Lousy Year (10)
- 22: Peter Jackson Gives Us an Enticing Glimpse of His Upcoming Beatles Documentary The Beatles: Get Back (1)
- 22: Why David Sedaris Hates “The Santaland Diaries,” the NPR Piece that Made Him Famous (1)
- 22: The UN’s World Happiness Report Ranks “Socialist Friendly” Countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland & Sweden as Among the Happiest in the World (8)
- 21: Why Is Napoleon’s Hand Always in His Waistcoat?: The Origins of This Distinctive Pose Explained (2)
- 21: How Joni Mitchell’s Song of Heartbreak, “River,” Became a Christmas Classic (1)
- 21: The Blob Opera Lets You Create Festive Music with Ease: An Interactive Experiment Powered by Machine Learning (0)
- 21: Brian Cullman, Veteran NY Music Scenester/Journalist/Producer, Shares His Tunes and Musings About Death: Nakedly Examined Music Podcast #137 (0)
- 18: Hokusai’s Iconic Print, “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” Recreated with 50,000 LEGO Bricks (0)
- 18: How Do Vaccines (Including the COVID-19 Vaccines) Work?: Watch Animated Introductions (2)
- 18: When Martin Scorsese Directed Michael Jackson in the 18-Minute “Bad” Music Video & Paid Cinematic Tribute to West Side Story (1986) (0)
- 18: Three Amateur Cryptographers Finally Decrypted the Zodiac Killer’s Letters: A Look Inside How They Solved a Half Century-Old Mystery (3)
- 17: 160,000+ Medieval Manuscripts Online: Where to Find Them (0)
- 17: Discover the Ambient Music of Hiroshi Yoshimura, the Pioneering Japanese Composer (4)
- 17: Salman Rushdie and Jeff Koons Teach New Courses on Art, Creativity & Storytelling for MasterClass (0)
- 17: A Free Online Course from Yale University Explains How the World Lapsed into the Politics of Fear & Resentment (1)
- 17: What Makes for a Beloved Bad Film? Jackey Neyman Jones (Manos: The Hands of Fate) Talks to Pretty Much Pop (ep. 73) (1)
- 16: The Dune Graphic Novel: Experience Frank Herbert’s Epic Sci-Fi Saga as You’ve Never Seen It Before (3)
- 16: Get Inside the Head of a New York City Christmas Tree: A Gonzo Short Film from Artist Nina Katchadourian (0)
- 16: Dave Grohl & Greg Kurstin Cover 8 Songs by Famous Jewish Artists for Hanukkah: Bob Dylan, Beastie Boys, Velvet Underground & More (0)
- 16: A Brief History of Talking Heads: How the Band Went from Scrappy CBGB’s Punks to New Wave Superstars (1)
- 15: David Byrne Turns His Acclaimed Musical American Utopia into a Picture Book for Grown-Ups, with Vivid Illustrations by Maira Kalman (1)
- 15: The Art of Movie Posters: View Online 40,000+ Movie Posters & Learn How They’re Made (1)
- 15: Isaac Newton Theorized That the Egyptian Pyramids Revealed the Timing of the Apocalypse: See His Burnt Manuscript from the 1680s (14)
- 15: How the Garage-Rock Anthem “Louie Louie” Became the Subject of a Lengthy FBI Investigation (1964) (2)
- 14: MIT’s Introduction to Deep Learning: A Free Online Course (2)
- 14: A Visual History of The Rolling Stones Documented in a Beautiful, 450-Page Photo Book by Taschen (0)
- 14: Watch 26 Free Episodes of Jacques Pépin’s TV Show, More Fast Food My Way (1)
- 14: A Detailed, Track-by-Track Analysis of the Doctor Who Theme Music (0)
- 11: Study Less, Study Smart: A Longtime Psych Professor Explains How to Study (or Do Any Intellectual Work) Effectively (2)
- 11: Watch the Oscar-Winning “Gerald McBoing-Boing” (1950): It’s Ranked as the 9th Greatest Cartoon of All Time (2)
- 11: When Italian Futurists Declared War on Pasta (1930) (1)
- 10: The Art of Traditional Japanese Wood Joinery: A Kyoto Woodworker Shows How Japanese Carpenters Created Wood Structures Without Nails or Glue (4)
- 10: Buddhist Monk Covers Metallica’s ”Enter Sandman,” Then Meditates (3)
- 10: Jimi Hendrix’s Home Audio System & Record Collection Gets Recreated in His London Flat (1)
- 10: Comic Book Writer Fred Van Lente Touts “Comic Supremacy” on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #72 (0)
- 09: Are You Happy, David Lynch? (1)
- 09: Don’t Think Twice: A Poignant Film Documents How Bob Dylan & The Beatles Bring Joy to a Dementia Patient (0)
- 09: A Biostatistician Uses Crochet to Visualize the Frightening Infection Rates of the Coronavirus (0)
- 09: The Map of Doom: A Data-Driven Visualization of the Biggest Threats to Humanity, Ranked from Likely to Unlikely (5)
- 08: The Hertella Coffee Machine Mounted on a Volkswagen Dashboard (1959): The Most European Car Accessory Ever Made (0)
- 08: Marina Abramović’s Method for Overcoming Trauma: Go to a Park, Hug a Tree Tight, and Tell It Your Complaints for 15 Minutes (5)
- 08: The Sistine Chapel of the Ancients: Archaeologists Discover 8 Miles of Art Painted on Rock Walls in the Amazon (2)
- 08: Why Butt Trumpets & Other Bizarre Images Appeared in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts (5)
- 07: Why Japan Has the Oldest Businesses in the World?: Hōshi, a 1300-Year-Old Hotel, Offers Clues (2)
- 07: Behold the Steampunk Home Exercise Machines from the Victorian Age (2)
- 07: How John Coltrane Introduced the World to His Radical Sound in the Groundbreaking Recording of “My Favorite Things” (3)
- 06: For Dave Brubeck’s 100th Birthday, Watch Pakistani Musicians Play an Enchanting Version of “Take Five” (10)
- 05: Hieronymus Bosch Figurines: Collect Surreal Characters from Bosch’s Paintings & Put Them on Your Bookshelf (0)
- 04: Why Humans Are Obsessed with Cats (4)
- 04: Watch “Jackson Pollock 51,” a Historic Short Film That Captures Pollock Creating Abstract Expressionist Art on a Sheet of Glass (0)
- 04: One of the Greatest Dances Sequences Ever Captured on Film Gets Restored in Color by AI: Watch the Classic Scene from Stormy Weather (5)
- 03: A Look into the Wondrous Life & Expansive Work of the Late Jan Morris, Who Wrote the Entire World (0)
- 03: The Power of Empathy: A Quick Animated Lesson from Brené Brown (2)
- 03: A 1913 Children’s Book Lampoons Duchamp, Picasso & Other Avant-Garde Artists: Read The Cubies’ ABC Online (1)
- 03: When Sun Ra Went to Egypt in 1971: See Film & Hear Recordings from the Legendary Afrofuturist’s First Visit to Cairo (3)
- 03: An Introduction to Rap Battles: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #71 (0)
- 02: The Internet Archive is Saving Classic Flash Animations & Games from Extinction: Explore Them Online (0)
- 02: What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like & How We Know It (1)
- 02: Japanese Art Installation Lets People Play Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédie No. 1” As They Walk on Socially-Distanced Notes on the Floor (1)
- 01: Quentin Tarantino’s Copycat Cinema: How the Postmodern Filmmaker Perfected the Art of the Steal (1)
- 01: Salvador Dalí Gets Surreal with 1950s America: Watch His Appearances on What’s My Line? (1952) and The Mike Wallace Interview (1958) (0)
- 01: 88 Philosophy Podcasts to Help You Answer the Big Questions in Life (1)
- November 2020 (84)
- 30: Learn How to Play Chess Online: Free Chess Lessons for Beginners, Intermediate Players & Beyond (3)
- 30: The Great Courses Offers Every Course on Sale for $60 or Less (Until December 1) (0)
- 30: Watch Digital Dancers Electrify the Streets of Istanbul (0)
- 30: An Animated Stan Lee Explains Why the F-Word Is “the Most Useful Word in the English Language” (NSFW) (0)
- 28: Hear 11-Year-Old Björk Sing “I Love to Love”: Her First Recorded Song (1976) (0)
- 27: The Great Courses Offers Every Course for $40 Until Midnight Tonight (0)
- 27: With 9,036 Pieces, the Roman Colosseum Is the Largest Lego Set Ever (1)
- 27: Toni Morrison’s 1,200 Volume Personal Library is Going on Sale: Get a Glimpse of the Books on Her Tribeca Condo Shelves (0)
- 27: A Free 700-Page Chess Manual Explains 1,000 Chess Tactics in Straightforward English (14)
- 27: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal (Until November 30) (1)
- 27: Famed New Orleans Music Producer Mark Bingham Discusses His Songs and Collaborations: A Nakedly Examined Music Conversation (#136) (0)
- 26: The Story Behind “Alice’s Restaurant,” Arlo Guthrie’s Song That’s Now a Thanksgiving Tradition (4)
- 26: A Flying Car Took to the Skies Back in 1949: See the Taylor Aerocar in Action (0)
- 26: The Beatles Create an Abstract Collaborative Painting, Images of a Woman, During Three Days of Lockdown in Japan (1966) (0)
- 25: Nikon Offers Free Online Photography Courses During the Holidays (0)
- 25: Stevie Ray Vaughan Gives a Blistering Demonstration of His Guitar Technique (12)
- 25: A Mysterious Monolith Appears in the Utah Desert, Channeling Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (5)
- 25: The Uncanny Children’s Book Illustrations of Sigmund’s Freud’s Niece, Tom Seidmann-Freud (1)
- 25: Kevin Allison (The State, RISK!) Discusses Confessional Comedy on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #70 (0)
- 24: The Polygraph: The Proto-Photocopy Machine Machine Invented in 1803 That Changed Thomas Jefferson’s Life (0)
- 24: Hear Legendary BBC Composer Delia Derbyshire’s Electronic Version of Bach’s “Air on a G String” (1)
- 24: The Eden Project Built a Rainforest Ecosystem Inside Buckminster Fuller-Inspired Geodesic Domes (0)
- 23: The Geometry of Sound: Watch Artist Kenichi Kanazawa Make Amazing Geometric Designs Out of Sand, Using Sound Waves Alone (1)
- 23: A Curious Herbal: 500 Beautiful Illustrations of Medicinal Plants Drawn by Elizabeth Blackwell in 1737 (to Save Her Family from Financial Ruin) (0)
- 23: Watch How to Be at Home, a Beautiful Short Animation on the Realities of Social Isolation in 2020 (4)
- 20: David Lynch Explains How Simple Daily Habits Enhance His Creativity (2)
- 20: Lou Reed Concert Film Berlin Streaming Free Online for the Next Week (6)
- 20: Behold One of the Earliest Known Color Charts: The Table of Physiological Colors (1686) (0)
- 19: How Errol Morris Became Obsessed with — and Figured Out — the Truth of a Famous War Photograph (2)
- 19: Leonardo Da Vinci’s To-Do List from 1490: The Plan of a Renaissance Man (0)
- 19: The Beautiful Video for David Gilmour’s “The Girl in the Yellow Dress,” Featuring 9,000 Hand-Drawn Frames of Animation (2)
- 18: Ray Bradbury Wrote the First Draft of Fahrenheit 451 on Coin-Operated Typewriters, for a Total of $9.80 (1)
- 18: Discover the Cyanometer, the Device Invented in 1789 Just to Measure the Blueness of the Sky (1)
- 18: Experience Blade Runner Like You Never Have Before Through a Feature-Length Remastered Soundtrack (7)
- 18: Pop Songs with Narrative: Pretty Much Pop (#69) Discusses Tunes Ranging from Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane” to “The Pina Colada Song” with Songwriter/Author Rod Picott (0)
- 17: A Free Stanford Course on How to Teach Online: Designed for Middle & High School Teachers (87)
- 17: What Happens When You Spend Weeks, Months, or Years in Solitary Confinement (8)
- 17: How Soy Sauce Has Been Made in Japan for Over 220 Years: An Inside View (0)
- 17: Rubens’ Cupid Escapes His Painting & Flies Around Brussels Airport, Thanks to Projection Mapping Technology (2)
- 16: Watch Sassy Justice, the New Deepfake Satire Show Created by the Makers of South Park (3)
- 16: Dr. Fauci’s Lecture from MIT’s Free Course on COVID-19: It’s Now Online (3)
- 16: Constantly Wrong: Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson Makes the Case Against Conspiracy Theories (0)
- 16: John Waters Gives Art Collection to The Baltimore Museum Of Art in Exchange for Getting Its Bathrooms Named After Him (1)
- 16: The Biblical Sci-Fi of “Raised by Wolves”–Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #68 (0)
- 13: Experience a Video Painting of Brian Eno’s Thursday Afternoon That Has Soothed & Relaxed Millions of People (0)
- 13: The Five Minute Museum: A Stop Motion Animation Shows the History of Civilization at Breakneck Speed (2)
- 13: How Akira Kurosawa Used Movement to Tell His Stories: A Video Essay (0)
- 13: Peter Milton Walsh of The Apartments Rejects Assembly-Line Recording: A Nakedly Examined Music Conversation (#135) (0)
- 12: 1,000+ Artworks by Vincent Van Gogh Digitized & Put Online by Dutch Museums: Enter Van Gogh Worldwide (0)
- 12: Eno: A 1973 Mini-Doc Shows Brian Eno at the Beginning of His Solo Career (0)
- 12: Futurist from 1901 Describes the World of 2001: Opera by Telephone, Free College & Pneumatic Tubes Aplenty (0)
- 12: The History of Rock Mapped Out on the Circuit Board of a Guitar Amplifier: 1400 Musicians, Songwriters & Producers (1)
- 11: Former Ballerina with Dementia Gracefully Comes Alive to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (0)
- 11: How the Beach Boys Created Their Pop Masterpieces: “Good Vibrations,” Pet Sounds, and More (4)
- 11: The Last Video Store: A Short Documentary on How the World’s Oldest Video Store Still Survives Today (0)
- 11: Experience the Bob Ross Experience: A New Museum Open in the TV Painter’s Former Studio Home (1)
- 10: Watch the Making of Japanese Woodblock Prints, from Start to Finish, by a Longtime Tokyo Printmaker (1)
- 10: Hear a Rare First Recording of Janis Joplin’s Hit “Me and Bobby McGee,” Written by Kris Kristofferson (11)
- 10: When ABBA Wrote Music for the Cold War-Themed Musical, Chess: “One of the Best Rock Scores Ever Produced for the Theatre” (1984) (1)
- 10: Powell’s Books Unveils a New Perfume That Smells Like Old Books (0)
- 09: Trips on the World’s Oldest Electric Suspension Railway in 1902 & 2015 Show How a City Changes Over a Century (0)
- 09: Watch Link Wray Play a Downright Dirty Version of “Rumble,” the Only Instrumental to Be Banned on Radio (1974) (2)
- 09: The Plastic Bag Store: A Pop Art Installation with a Whimsical But Deadly Serious Environmental Message (1)
- 09: Was Winston Churchill “The Greatest Briton”? A Short Claymation Looks at the Darker Side of the Prime Minister’s Life (4)
- 08: The Spinal Tap Stonehenge Debacle (1)
- 07: Patti Smith & Fred “Sonic” Smith Perform a Stripped-Down, Beautiful Version of “People Have the Power” (3)
- 06: The Cinematography That Changed Cinema: Exploring Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Greenaway & Other Auteurs (1)
- 06: Terry Gilliam Reveals the Secrets of Monty Python Animations: A 1974 How-To Guide (1)
- 06: Neil Young Releases a Never-Before-Heard Version of His 1979 Classic, “Powderfinger”: Stream It Online (2)
- 05: How Charlie Chaplin Used Groundbreaking Visual Effects to Shoot the Death-Defying Roller Skate Scene in Modern Times (1936) (1)
- 05: The Meticulous, Elegant Illustrations of the Nature Observed in England’s Countryside (1)
- 05: A Dictionary of Symbols: Juan Eduardo Cirlot’s Classic Study of Symbols Gets Republished in a Beautiful, Expanded Edition (0)
- 05: “Borat” on Politics and Embarrassment–Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast Discussion #67 (0)
- 04: 40,000 Early Modern Maps Are Now Freely Available Online (Courtesy of the British Library) (1)
- 04: A Digital Library for Bartenders: Vintage Cocktail Books with Recipes Dating Back to 1753 (1)
- 04: How the Iconic Colors of the New York City Subway System Were Invented: See the 1930 Color Chart Created by Architect Squire J. Vickers (0)
- 03: 10 Hours of Nick Offerman Quietly Drinking Single Malt Scotch by the Fire (2)
- 03: Three Days in Twin Peaks: An In-Depth Journey Through the Evocative Locations of David Lynch’s TV Series (4)
- 03: Martin Luther King: “You Know Who to Vote For. I’m Just Asking You to Vote!” (1964) (2)
- 03: The Iconic Photography of Gordon Parks: An Introduction to the Renaissance American Artist (0)
- 02: A Quay Brothers Animation Explains Anamorphosis, the Renaissance Illusion That Hides Pictures within Pictures (0)
- 02: When Louis Armstrong Stopped a Civil War in The Congo (1960) (0)
- 02: Before Creating the Moomins, Tove Jansson Drew Satirical Art Mocking Hitler & Stalin (0)
- 01: Why Masks Work: A Slow Motion Demonstration (Plus a Guest Appearance by Dr. Fauci) (0)
- October 2020 (82)
- 31: Sean Connery (RIP) Reads C.P. Cavafy’s Epic Poem “Ithaca,” Set to the Music of Vangelis (9)
- 30: The Official Trailer for the New Frank Zappa Documentary Is Now Online (1)
- 30: The Legend of How Bluesman Robert Johnson Sold His Soul to the Devil at the Crossroads (4)
- 30: The Sublime Alice in Wonderland Illustrations of Tove Jansson, Creator of the Globally-Beloved Moomins (1966) (2)
- 30: The Gruesome Dollhouse Death Scenes That Reinvented Murder Investigations (1)
- 30: What Scares Us, and How Does this Manifest in Film? A Halloween Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast (#66) (0)
- 29: When Edward Gorey Created Set Designs & Tony Award-Winning Costumes for a Broadway Production of Dracula (1977) (0)
- 29: The Secret to High Performance and Fulfilment: Psychologist Daniel Goleman Explains the Power of Focus (1)
- 29: Watch a Surreal 1933 Animation of Snow White, Featuring Cab Calloway & Betty Boop: It’s Ranked as the 19th Greatest Cartoon of All Time (4)
- 28: Karen O & Willie Nelson Release a New Cover Bowie & Queen’s “Under Pressure” (4)
- 28: The History of Soviet Rock: From the 70s Underground Rock Scene, to Soviet Punk & New Wave in the 1980s (0)
- 28: John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” & Bach’s “Prelude in C Major” Get Turned into Dazzling Musical Animations by an Artist with Synesthesia (2)
- 28: A Glass Floor in a Dublin Grocery Store Lets Shoppers Look Down & Explore Medieval Ruins (0)
- 27: Janis Joplin & Tom Jones Bring the House Down in an Unlikely Duet of “Raise Your Hand” (1969) (11)
- 27: When Billy Idol Went Cyberpunk: See His Tribute to Neuromancer, His Recording Session with Timothy Leary, and His Limited-Edition Floppy Disk (1993) (0)
- 27: The Time When National Lampoon Parodied Mad Magazine: A Satire of Satire (1971) (4)
- 27: The Craft of Writing Effectively: Essential Lessons from the Longtime Director of UChicago’s Writing Program (2)
- 26: The Japanese Traditions of Sashiko & Boro: The Centuries-Old Craft That Mends Clothes in a Sustainable, Artistic Way (2)
- 26: How to Speak: Watch the Lecture on Effective Communication That Became an MIT Tradition for Over 40 Years (3)
- 26: When Andy Warhol & Edie Sedgwick, the First Couple of Pop Art, Made an Odd Appearance on the Merv Griffin Show (1965) (0)
- 26: Jazz-Zither-Piano-Man Laraaji Discusses His Decades of Meditative Improvisations: A Nakedly Examined Music Podcast Conversation (#134) (0)
- 23: Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees, Creating Perfectly Straight Lumber (7)
- 23: Recipes from the Kitchen of Georgia O’Keeffe (1)
- 22: Glenn Gould Explains Why Mozart Was a Bad Composer in a Controversial Public TV Show (1968) (13)
- 22: “The Dark Side of the Moon” and Other Pink Floyd Songs Gloriously Performed by Irish & German Orchestras (12)
- 22: An Animated Video Shows the Building of a Medieval Bridge: 45 Years of Construction in 3 Minutes (2)
- 22: Chris Matheson, “Bill & Ted” Writer, Talks Cosmic Satire with Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #65 (0)
- 21: Tom Lehrer Releases His All of Catchy and Savage Musical Satire Into the Public Domain (14)
- 21: How the Doors Got Banned from The Ed Sullivan Show (1967) (0)
- 21: Watch Cornel West’s Free Online Course on W.E.B. Du Bois, the Great 20th Century Public Intellectual (1)
- 20: How to De-Stress with Niksen, the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing (2)
- 20: Phone Relief: The Ultimate Hands-Free Headset (1993) (0)
- 20: Take a Digital Drive Along Ed Ruscha’s Sunset Boulevard, the Famous Strip That the Artist Photographed from 1965 to 2007 (1)
- 20: The Dorothea Lange Digital Archive: Explore 600+ Photographs by the Influential Photographer (Plus Negatives, Contact Sheets & More) (1)
- 19: Watch Ridley Scott’s Controversial Nissan Sports Car Ad That Aired Only Once, During the Super Bowl (1990) (1)
- 19: The 100 Most Influential Photographs: Watch TIME’s Video Essays on Photos That Changed the World (0)
- 19: How Some of the World’s Most Famous Cheeses Are Made: Camembert, Brie, Gorgonzola & More (0)
- 18: A Master List of 1,500 Free Courses From Top Universities: 50,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures to Enrich Your Mind (5)
- 16: Mapping the Differences in How Americans Speak English: A Geographic Look at Words, Accents & Dialects (1)
- 16: Edward Hopper’s Creative Process: The Drawing & Careful Preparation Behind Nighthawks & Other Iconic Paintings (0)
- 16: The Dance Theatre of Harlem Dances Through the Streets of NYC: A Sight to Behold (0)
- 15: 11 Hypnotic, Close-Up Minutes Watching Tool’s Legendary Drummer Danny Carey in Action (17)
- 15: The Scariest Film of All Time? A Vintage Look at the Hysteria Around The Exorcist in 1973 (0)
- 15: Denmark’s Utopian Garden City Built Entirely in Circles: See Astounding Aerial Views of Brøndby Haveby (1)
- 15: “The Last of Us” Franchise: Can Video Games Be Cinema? A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion (#64) (0)
- 14: Werner Herzog Lists All the Languages He Knows–and Why He Only Speaks French If (Literally) a Gun’s Pointed at His Head (0)
- 14: Marionette Freddie Mercury Performs on the Streets of Madrid (2)
- 14: Explore the Roman Cookbook, De Re Coquinaria, the Oldest Known Cookbook in Existence (1)
- 14: How to Win an Argument (at the U.S. Supreme Court, or Anywhere Else): A Primer by Litigator Neal Katyal (0)
- 13: 10,000 Vintage Recipe Books Are Now Digitized in The Internet Archive’s Cookbook & Home Economics Collection (5)
- 13: A Creepy 19th Century Re-Creation of the Famous Ancient Roman Statue, Laocoön and His Sons (0)
- 13: The Incredible Six-Octave Vocal Range of Opera-Singing Punk Diva Nina Hagen (8)
- 12: How Science Fiction Formed Jimi Hendrix (9)
- 12: The Great Illustration That Accompanied Eddie Van Halen’s Application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (1987) (1)
- 12: The David Lynch Retrospective: A Two Hour Video Essay on Lynch’s Complete Filmography, from Eraserhead to Inland Empire (0)
- 12: A Virtual Table Read of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Featuring Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman, Shia LaBeouf, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, John Legend & More (0)
- 11: Requiem for a Dream: The Cast & Crew Reunite 20 Years Later (1)
- 09: Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton Go Toe to Toe (Almost) in a Hilarious Boxing Scene Mash Up from Their Classic Silent Films (1)
- 09: The Story of the SynthAxe, the Astonishing 1980s Guitar Synthesizer: Only 100 Were Ever Made (0)
- 08: A Live Studio Cover of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Played from Start to Finish (10)
- 08: Restored Footage of 1896 Snowball Fight Makes It Seem Like the Fun Happened Yesterday (1)
- 08: Learn the Stories Behind Iconic Songs: The Rolling Stones’ “Miss You,” REM’s “Losing My Religion,” Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” & More (0)
- 08: Foreign Exchange Students Debate Whether American Teenagers Have Too Much Freedom (1954) (1)
- 07: The 1937 Experiment in Distance Learning: When Chicago Schools Went Remote, Over Radio, During a Polio Outbreak (0)
- 07: Why Do People Join Cults? An Animated Primer Explains (3)
- 07: Watch Some of Eddie Van Halen’s (RIP) Greatest Performances: “Shredding Was Eddie’s Very Essence” (3)
- 07: What Caused the Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe?: A Brief Investigation into the Poet’s Demise 171 Years Ago Today (1)
- 07: What Can Superhero Media Teach Us About Ethics: A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast (#63) Discussion with Philosophy Professor Travis Smith (0)
- 06: Ted Turner Asks Carl Sagan “Are You a Socialist?;” Sagan Responds Thoughtfully (1989) (6)
- 06: How Vividly Colorized Photos Helped Introduce Japan to the World in the 19th Century (0)
- 06: The Only Time Prince & Miles Davis Jammed Together Onstage: Watch the New Year’s Eve, 1987 Concert (2)
- 05: Watch the Dadaist Masterpiece Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928): Hans Richter’s Film Was So Avant Garde It Was Desecrated by the Nazis (0)
- 05: Jazz Typefaces Capture the Essence of 100 Iconic Jazz Musicians (1)
- 05: Dear Facebook, This is How You’re Breaking Democracy: A Former Facebook Insider Explains How the Platform’s Algorithms Polarize Our Society (0)
- 05: Watch a Young Carl Sagan Appear in His First TV Documentary, The Violent Universe (1969) (0)
- 04: The Grateful Dead Movie: Watch It Free Online (1)
- 02: GPS Tracking Reveals the Secret Lives of Outdoor Cats (1)
- 02: When Shostakovich Adapted Gogol’s “The Nose” Into an Opera: Watch Giant Noses Tap Dancing on the Stage (0)
- 02: An Animated Reading of “The Jabberwocky,” Lewis Carroll’s Nonsense Poem That Somehow Manages to Make Sense (0)
- 01: Hear Readings of Albert Einstein’s Love Letters (and Chilly Divorce Letters) to His First Wife Mileva (0)
- 01: Explore a Digital Archive of Student Notebooks from Around the World (1773-Present) (0)
- 01: Chris Frantz Breaks Down How He Crafted Songs for Talking Heads & Tom Tom Club: A Nakedly Examined Music Interview (0)
- September 2020 (80)
- 30: What Would the World of Charlie Chaplin Look Like in Color?: Watch a Colorfully Restored Version of A Night at the Show (1915) (0)
- 30: Ella Fitzgerald Imitates Louis Armstrong’s Gravelly Voice While Singing “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby” (0)
- 30: When R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe Created the Lyrics for “The Voice of Harold” by Riffing on the Liner Notes of an Old Gospel Album (1983) (3)
- 30: Mulan Re-Disneyfied: A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast (#62) Discussion with Actor Michael Tow (0)
- 29: Explore the Codex Zouche-Nuttall: A Rare, Accordion-Folded Pre-Columbian Manuscript (0)
- 29: How Storyboarding Works: A Brief Introduction to How Ridley Scott, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson & Other Directors Storyboard Their Films (0)
- 28: The Story Behind the Iconic Photograph of 11 Construction Workers Lunching 840 Feet Above New York City (1932) (1)
- 28: Hand-Colored Maps of Wealth & Poverty in Victorian London: Explore a New Interactive Edition of Charles Booth’s Historic Work of Social Cartography (1889) (0)
- 28: Why James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano Is “the Greatest Acting Achievement Ever Committed to the Screen”: A Video Essay (3)
- 28: Discovered: The User Manual for the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World (0)
- 26: The Beastie Boys’ Final Concert Streaming Free Online This Weekend (0)
- 25: Frida Kahlo’s Venomous Love Letter to Diego Rivera: “I’m Amputating You. Be Happy and Never Seek Me Again” (0)
- 25: Understanding Chris Marker’s Radical Sci-Fi Film La Jetée: A Study Guide Distributed to High Schools in the 1970s (1)
- 24: Studio Ghibli Puts Online 400 Images from Eight Classic Films, and Lets You Download Them for Free (0)
- 24: What Voltaire Meant When He Said That “We Must Cultivate Our Garden”: An Animated Introduction (0)
- 24: Watch Chilling Footage of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombings in Restored Color (16)
- 24: The Philosophy of Photography with Amir Zaki on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #61 (0)
- 23: An Animated Introduction to Albert Camus’ Existentialism, a Philosophy Making a Comeback in Our Dysfunctional Times (8)
- 23: The Liberal Arts Can Make People Less Susceptible to Authoritarianism, a New Study Finds (3)
- 23: Is Mail-In Voting New in the United States?: It Actually Goes Back to the Civil War (2)
- 22: 30 Buster Keaton Films: “The Greatest of All Comic Actors,” “One of the Greatest Filmmakers of All Time” (3)
- 22: How Bong Joon-ho’s Storyboards for Parasite (Now Published as a Graphic Novel) Meticulously Shaped the Acclaimed Film (1)
- 22: The Internet Archive Will Digitize & Preserve Millions of Academic Articles with Its New Database, “Internet Archive Scholar” (0)
- 21: Why The Wire is One of the Most Brilliant TV Shows Ever (8)
- 21: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Favorite Opera Recordings (and Her First Appearance in an Opera) (0)
- 21: Blockbuster Courses on the U.S. Presidential Election Getting Started at Stanford Continuing Studies This Week (0)
- 21: If Werner Herzog Reviewed Trader Joe’s on Yelp: “Madness Reigns. The First Challenge Your Soul Must Endure Is the Parking Lot” (2)
- 21: The Life, Work & Philosophy of Bill Murray: Happy 70th Birthday to an American Comedy Icon (2)
- 18: A Long, Guided Tour of New York City Captured in Original Color Film (1937) (2)
- 18: Free Jazz Musicians Intentionally Play Terrible Music to Drown Out the Noise of a Danish Far-Right Politician (6)
- 18: High-Resolution Walking Tours of Italy’s Most Historic Places: The Colosseum, Pompeii, St. Peter’s Basilica & More (0)
- 17: Watch Rare Footage of Jimi Hendrix Performing “Voodoo Child” in Maui, Plus a Trailer for a New Documentary on Jimi Hendrix’s Legendary Maui Performances (1970) (1)
- 17: A Side-by-Side, Shot-by-Shot Comparison of Denis Villeneuve’s 2020 Dune and David Lynch’s 1984 Dune (10)
- 17: Good Movies as Old Books: 100 Films Reimagined as Vintage Book Covers (0)
- 17: A Short Introduction to Manga by Pretty Much Pop #60 with Professor Deborah Shamoon from the National University of Singapore (1)
- 16: Debbie Harry Demonstrates the Punk Pogo Dance for a U.S. Audience (1978) (5)
- 16: The Pentagon Created a Plan to Defend the US Against a Zombie Apocalypse: Read It Online (3)
- 16: Steal Like Wes Anderson: A New Video Essay Explores How Wes Anderson Pays Artful Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman & Other Directors in His Films (0)
- 16: In a Brilliant Light: Van Gogh in Arles–A Free Documentary (1)
- 15: David Byrne’s American Utopia: A Sneak Preview of Spike Lee’s New Concert Film (1)
- 15: The Curious Death of Vincent van Gogh (2)
- 15: The Joy of Watching Old, Damaged Things Get Restored: Why the World is Captivated by Restoration Videos (1)
- 15: Explore Dozens of Drawings by Charles Darwin’s Creative Children (0)
- 14: David Lynch Tries to Make a List of the Good Things Happening in the World … and Comes Up Blank (10)
- 14: Monty Python’s Michael Palin Is Also an Art Critic: Watch Him Explore His Favorite Paintings by Andrew Wyeth & Other Artists (0)
- 14: Four Classic Prince Songs Re-Imagined as Pulp Fiction Covers: When Doves Cry, Little Red Corvette & More (1)
- 14: Behold the First Underwater Portrait in the History of Photography (Circa 1899) (0)
- 11: 19th-Century Japanese Woodblocks Illustrate the Lives of Western Inventors, Artists, and Scholars (1873) (0)
- 11: Leonardo da Vinci’s Elegant Studies of the Human Heart Were 500 Years Ahead of Their Time (1)
- 11: Sounds of the Forest: A Free Audio Archive Gathers the Sounds of Forests from All Over the World (3)
- 11: Watch Lime Kiln Club Field Day, One of the Earliest Surviving Feature Films with an All Black Cast (1913) (0)
- 11: Central Park Bird Watcher Christian Cooper Writes DC Comics Graphic Novel: It’s Now Free Online (1)
- 10: Drone Footage of San Francisco Set to the Music of Bladerunner 2049 (1)
- 10: Watch the First Trailer for Dune, Denis Villeneuve’s Adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Classic Sci-Fi Novel (1)
- 10: Watch Dan Aykroyd & Bill Murray Goof Off in a Newly Unearthed Ghostbusters Promotional Film (1984) (0)
- 09: Discover the Longest Song in the World: A 639-Year Performance of the John Cage Composition Called “Organ/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible)” (1)
- 09: In 1183, a Chinese Poet Describes Being Domesticated by His Own Cats (2)
- 09: Scorsese’s Taxi Driver Reimagined as the 1970s Sitcom, Taxi (0)
- 09: David Lynch’s Popular Surrealism Considered on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #59 (1)
- 08: The Fall of Civilizations Podcast Engagingly Explores the Collapse of Civilizations & Empires Throughout History (3)
- 08: How Charlie Parker Changed Jazz Forever (0)
- 08: IKEA Digitizes & Puts Online 70 Years of Its Catalogs: Explore the Designs of the Swedish Furniture Giant (5)
- 08: MIT Presents a Free Course on the COVID-19 Pandemic, Featuring Anthony Fauci & Other Experts (3)
- 07: A Medieval Metropolis Existed In What’s Now St. Louis, Then Mysteriously Disappeared in the 14th Century (11)
- 07: Paul Schrader Creates a Diagram Mapping the Progression of Arthouse Cinema: Ozu, Bresson, Tarkovsky & Other Auteurs (1)
- 07: Watch an Epic Drum Battle, Pitting a 9-Year-Old Girl Against Foo Fighter Dave Grohl (4)
- 05: Google Introduces 6-Month Career Certificates, Threatening to Disrupt Higher Education with “the Equivalent of a Four-Year Degree” (65)
- 05: The Story of Fascism: Rick Steves’ Documentary Helps Us Learn from the Hard Lessons of the 20th Century (12)
- 04: William Blake’s Paintings Come to Life in Two Animations (0)
- 04: J. Robert Oppenheimer Explains How He Recited a Line from Bhagavad Gita–“Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds”–Upon Witnessing the First Nuclear Explosion (0)
- 03: John Waters Designs a Witty Poster for the New York Film Festival (0)
- 03: David Lynch Being a Madman for a Relentless 8 Minutes and 30 Seconds (0)
- 03: A Database of 5,000 Historical Cookbooks–Covering 1,000 Years of Food History–Is Now Online (0)
- 03: A Short Introduction to Caravaggio, the Master Of Light (2)
- 02: Behold a Beautiful 400-Year-Old ‘Friendship Book’ Featuring the Signatures of Historic Figures (0)
- 02: Take Immersive Virtual Tours of the World’s Great Museums: The Louvre, Hermitage, Van Gogh Museum & Much More (0)
- 02: Bronze Age Britons Turned Bones of Dead Relatives into Musical Instruments & Ornaments (0)
- 01: Hear Patti Smith’s First Poetry Reading, Accompanied by Her Longtime Guitarist Lenny Kaye (St. Mark’s Church, 1971) (0)
- 01: How to Manage Your Time More Effectively: The Science of Applying Computer Algorithms to Our Everyday Lives (0)
- 01: Watch Home Movies Starring Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, Igor Stravinsky, Gertrude Stein, Colette & Other Early 20th Century Luminaries (0)
- August 2020 (74)
- 31: Banksy Funds a Boat to Rescue Refugees at Sea–and Soon It Finds Itself in Distress in the Mediterranean (0)
- 31: Watch Bob Dylan Perform “Only A Pawn In Their Game,” His Damning Song About the Murder of Medgar Evers, at the 1963 March on Washington (1)
- 28: Composer John Philip Sousa Warns of the Threat Posed by Recorded Music (1906) (0)
- 28: A Beautiful 1897 Illustrated Book Shows How Flowers Become Art Nouveau Designs (0)
- 28: The Top 20 Russian Films, According to Russians (1)
- 27: What Did the Roman Emperors Look Like?: See Photorealistic Portraits Created with Machine Learning (13)
- 27: Billie Eilish Performs an NPR Tiny Desk Concert, with a Little Bit of Technology & Magic (0)
- 27: JamBase Launches a New Video Archive of 100,000 Streaming Concerts: Phish, Wilco, the Avett Brothers, Grateful Dead & Much More (0)
- 27: Conversation with a Swiftie: Pretty Much Pop #58 Addresses the Taylor Swift Phenomenon (1)
- 26: The Massive Harrods Catalogue from 1912 Gets Digitized: Before Amazon, Harrods Offered “Everything for Everyone, Everywhere” (0)
- 26: Take a Virtual Tour of Frida Kahlo’s Blue House Free Online (0)
- 26: Sylvia Beach Tells the Story of Founding Shakespeare and Company, Publishing Joyce’s Ulysses, Selling Copies of Hemingway’s First Book & More (1962) (2)
- 26: How Stevie Nicks Wrote “Rhiannon” & Embodied the Medieval Witch Character Onstage (2)
- 25: Documentaries on the Groundbreaking Work & Life of Ursula K. Le Guin & Four Other Trailblazing Artists, Streaming Free this Week (11)
- 25: Hear 10 of Bach’s Pieces Played on Original Baroque Instruments (0)
- 25: Hear Musicians Play the Only Playable Stradivarius Guitar in the World: The “Sabionari” (1)
- 25: A New Digital Archive Preserves Black Lives Matter & COVID-19 Street Art (0)
- 24: The Japanese Sculptor Who Dedicated His Life to Finishing Gaudí’s Magnum Opus, the Sagrada Família (0)
- 24: Watch the Opening Credits of an Imaginary 70s Cop Show That Stars Samuel Beckett (0)
- 24: Nina Simone Writes an Admiring Letter to Langston Hughes: “Brother, You’ve Got a Fan Now!” (1966) (0)
- 22: Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: A Free Reading by Featuring Neil Gaiman, William Shatner, Susan Orlean & More (2)
- 21: Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock & Other Jazz Musicians Sell Whisky & Spirits in Classic Japanese TV Commercials (2)
- 21: The Face of Bill Murray Adds Some Joy to Classic Paintings (0)
- 21: The British Museum is Full of Looted Artifacts (15)
- 20: There Are Only 37 Possible Stories, According to This 1919 Manual for Screenwriters (6)
- 20: The Story of “Wipe Out,” the Classic Surf Rock Instrumental (5)
- 20: Free Courses to Maintain Mental & Physical Health During a Pandemic (1)
- 19: Essential Reads on Feminism: The New York Public Library Creates a Reading List to Honor the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment (1)
- 19: Graphic Novels Tell the Story of David Bowie, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Jean-Michel Basquiat & Other Artists and Thinkers (3)
- 19: A New Interactive Map Shows All Four Million Buildings That Existed in New York City from 1939 to 1941 (0)
- 19: Back to the Arena: Battling the Hunger Games Prequel with Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast (#57) (0)
- 18: Vincent Van Gogh’s Self Portraits: Explore & Download a Collection of 17 Paintings Free Online (0)
- 18: A Record Store Designed for Mice in Sweden, Featuring Albums by Mouse Davis, Destiny’s Cheese, Dolly Parsley & More (4)
- 18: Every Possible Kind of Science Fiction Story: An Exhaustive List Created by Pioneering 1920s SciFi Writer Clare Winger Harris (1931) (4)
- 17: An Introduction to Postmodernist Thinkers & Themes: Watch Primers on Foucault, Nietzsche, Derrida, Deleuze & More (0)
- 17: 2020: An Isolation Odyssey–A Short Film Reenacts the Finale of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, with a COVID-19 Twist (3)
- 17: What Made Richard Feynman One of the Most Admired Educators in the World (3)
- 17: The Recipes of Famous Artists: Dinners & Cocktails From Tolstoy, Miles Davis, Marilyn Monroe, David Lynch & Many More (1)
- 14: Gilda Radner Does a Comic Impersonation of Patti Smith: Watch the Classic SNL Skit, “Rock Against Yeast” (1979) (4)
- 14: When Salvador Dalí Met Alice Cooper & Turned Him into a Hologram: The Meeting of Two Kings of Camp (1973) (1)
- 14: Errol Morris Makes His Groundbreaking Series, First Person, Free to Watch Online: Binge Watch His Interviews with Geniuses, Eccentrics, Obsessives & Other Unusual Types (0)
- 13: Explore an Interactive, Online Version of the Beautifully Illustrated, 200-Year-Old British & Exotic Mineralogy (0)
- 13: One of the Oldest Buddhist Manuscripts Has Been Digitized & Put Online: Explore the Gandhara Scroll (0)
- 13: The Flying Train: A 1902 Film Captures a Futuristic Ride on a Suspended Railway in Germany (3)
- 12: Milton Glaser’s Stylish Album Covers for The Band, Nina Simone, John Cage & Many More (1)
- 12: Ballerina Misty Copeland Recreates the Poses of Edgar Degas’ Ballet Dancers (1)
- 12: When Edward Gorey Designed Book Covers for Classic Novels: See His Ironic-Gothic Take on Dickens, Conrad, Poe & More (0)
- 12: What Is a “Blerd?” Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #56 Discusses Nerd Culture and Race with The Second City’s Anthony LeBlanc (0)
- 11: The Strange Costumes of the Plague Doctors Who Treated 17th Century Victims of the Bubonic Plague (0)
- 11: How John Woo Makes His Intense Action Scenes: A Video Essay (0)
- 11: Dessert Recipes of Iconic Thinkers: Emily Dickinson’s Coconut Cake, George Orwell’s Christmas Pudding, Alice B. Toklas’ Hashish Fudge & More (0)
- 11: When We All Have Pocket Telephones (1923) (1)
- 10: The Wine Windows of Renaissance Florence Dispense Wine Safely Again During COVID-19 (0)
- 10: Classic Punk Rock Sketches from Saturday Night Live, Courtesy of Fred Armisen (1)
- 10: The Golden Age of Berlin Comes to Life in the Classic, Avant-Garde Film, Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927) (0)
- 10: Winston Churchill Praises the Virtue of “Brevity” in Memos to His Staff: Concise Writing Leads to Clearer Thinking (0)
- 07: Divine Decks: A Visual History of Tarot: The First Comprehensive Survey of Tarot Gets Published by Taschen (2)
- 07: View 250,000 British Paintings & Sculptures Free Online (0)
- 07: Get the Ancient Roman Look: A Hair & Makeup Video Tutorial (0)
- 06: Professor Who Picked Every Election Winner Since Ronald Reagan Reveals His Prediction for the 2020 Election (32)
- 06: Roald Dahl Gives a Tour of the Small Backyard Hut Where He Wrote All of His Beloved Children’s Books (0)
- 06: A Physicist Examines the Scientific Accuracy of Physics Shown in Major Movies: Batman, Gravity, Contact, Interstellar, Star Trek & More (0)
- 06: Seriously Awesome Ukulele Covers of “Sultans of Swing,” “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” “Thunderstruck,” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (4)
- 06: Food As Pop with Prof. C. Thi Nguyen (Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #55) (1)
- 05: A Virtual Tour of Ancient Rome, Circa 320 CE: Explore Stunning Recreations of The Forum, Colosseum and Other Monuments (4)
- 05: How Scholars Finally Deciphered Linear B, the Oldest Preserved Form of Ancient Greek Writing (0)
- 05: Istanbul Captured in Beautiful Color Images from 1890: The Hagia Sophia, Topkaki Palace’s Imperial Gate & More (0)
- 04: Explore the Ruins of Timgad, the “African Pompeii” Excavated from the Sands of Algeria (0)
- 04: The Iconic Album Covers of Hipgnosis: Meet “The Beatles of Album Cover Art” Who Created Unforgettable Designs for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel & Many More (0)
- 04: James Baldwin Talks About Racism in America & Civil Rights Activism on The Dick Cavett Show (1969) (0)
- 03: What Does the United States’ Coronavirus Response Look Like Abroad?: Watch the Rest of the World Stare Aghast at Our Handling of COVID-19 (1)
- 03: The Map of Quantum Physics: A Colorful Animation Explains the Often Misunderstood Branch of Science (2)
- 03: Revisit Scenes of Daily Life in Amsterdam in 1922, with Historic Footage Enhanced by Artificial Intelligence (2)
- 03: Zamrock: An Introduction to Zambia’s 1970s Rich & Psychedelic Rock Scene (3)
- July 2020 (85)
- 31: Why “The Girl from Ipanema”‘ Is a Richer & Weirder Song Than You Ever Realized (27)
- 31: Take an 360° Interactive Tour Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza (1)
- 30: Watch Metropolis’ Cinematically Innovative Dance Scene, Restored as Fritz Lang Intended It to Be Seen (1927) (0)
- 30: The Story Behind the Iconic Black Power Salute Photo at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City (0)
- 30: Historic Mexican Recipes Are Now Available as Free Digital Cookbooks: Get Started With Dessert (50)
- 30: Rick and Morty as Absurdist Humor, Yet Legitimate Sci-Fi with Family Drama (Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #54) (0)
- 29: The Rise & Fall of Silver Apples: The 1960s Electronic Band That Built Their Own Synthesizer, Produced Two Pioneering Albums, and Then Faded into Obscurity (3)
- 29: Tony Hawk & Architectural Historian Iain Borden Tell the Story of How Skateboarding Found a New Use for Cities & Architecture (0)
- 29: New Digital Archive Opens Access to Thousands of Digitized African American Funeral Programs (1886-2019) (0)
- 28: Behold 19th-Century Japanese Firemen’s Coats, Richly Decorated with Mythical Heroes & Symbols (2)
- 28: Édith Piaf’s Moving Performance of ‘La Vie en Rose’ on French Television (1954) (0)
- 28: Comedians Speaking Truth to Power: Lenny Bruce, George Carlin & Richard Pryor (NSFW) (0)
- 27: Hear the Cristal Baschet, an Enchanting Organ Made of Wood, Metal & Glass, and Played with Wet Hands (1)
- 27: Hear the Sound Of Endangered Birds Get Turned Into Electronic Music (0)
- 27: Why Fleetwood Mac’s Peter Green (RIP) Was the Most Underrated Guitarist in British Blues (8)
- 26: A Free Stanford Course on How to Teach Online: Watch the Lectures Online (13)
- 24: Watch Manhatta, the First American Avant-Garde Film (1921) (0)
- 24: Watch the Last, Transcendent Performance of “Echoes” by Pink Floyd Keyboardist Richard Wright & David Gilmour (2006) (12)
- 24: Revisit Six of Elton John’s Most Iconic Concerts, Streaming in Their Entirety for 72 Hours (2)
- 23: W.E.B. Du Bois Devastates Apologists for Confederate Monuments and Robert E. Lee (1931) (8)
- 23: Raymond Chandler’s 36 Great Unused Titles: From “The Man With the Shredded Ear,” to “Quick, Hide the Body” (1)
- 23: How Ornette Coleman Freed Jazz with His Theory of Harmolodics (1)
- 23: Devo De-Evolves the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”: See Their Groundbreaking Music Video and Saturday Night Live Performance (1978) (0)
- 23: The Rolling Stones Release a Long Lost Track Featuring Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page (0)
- 23: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #53 Explores the Hamilton Phenomenon (0)
- 22: H.R. Giger’s Dark, Surrealist Album Covers: Debbie Harry, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Celtic Frost, Danzig & More (3)
- 22: The Moment When Bob Dylan Went Electric: Watch Him Play “Maggie’s Farm” at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 (4)
- 22: Lin-Manuel Miranda Breaks Down How He Wrote Hamilton‘s Big Hit, “My Shot” (0)
- 22: Artists Give Advice to the Young: Words of Wisdom from Andrei Tarkovsky, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, John Cleese & Many More (0)
- 21: When Astronomer Johannes Kepler Wrote the First Work of Science Fiction, The Dream (1609) (0)
- 21: How Vladimir Nabokov Wrote Lolita, “My Most Difficult Book”: A 1989 Documentary (1)
- 21: A Beatboxing Buddhist Monk Creates Music for Meditation (0)
- 20: Icons of Art Wearing Masks: Frida Kahlo, Mona Lisa, Girl with the Pearl Earring & More (0)
- 20: Dr. Fauci Reads an Undergrad’s Entire Thesis, Then Follows Up with an Encouraging Letter (8)
- 20: Dr. Wise on Influenza: Rare Silent Film Shows How They Tried to Educate the Public About the Spanish Flu a Century Ago (1919) (1)
- 19: 29 Free Short Stories from Some of Today’s Most Acclaimed Writers: Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell & More (0)
- 18: Modern English Performs Their 1982 Hit, “I Melt With You,” in Quarantine (19)
- 17: Everything You Need To Know About Viruses: A Quick Visual Explanation of Viruses in 9 Images (0)
- 17: Sunken Films: Watch a Cinematic Meditation on Films Found on the Ocean’s Floor (3)
- 17: You Can Play the New Samurai Video Game Ghost of Tsushima in “Kurosawa Mode:” An Homage to the Japanese Master (0)
- 16: Make Your Own Krispy Kreme Face Shield: A Primer for Making Your Own Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (0)
- 16: Hear an Enchanted Medieval Cover of Dolly Parton’s Classic Ode to Jealousy, “Jolene” (0)
- 16: Banksy Strikes Again in London & Urges Everyone to Wear Masks (0)
- 16: Michel Gondry Creates a Burger King Ad That Touts New Research on Reducing Cow Flatulence & Climate Change (2)
- 15: A Short Documentary on the Courageous Tuskegee Airmen, Narrated by Morgan Freeman (0)
- 15: What Happened When Americans Had to Wear Masks During the 1918 Flu Pandemic (14)
- 15: How Cannonball Adderley Shared the Joy of Jazz (1)
- 15: Explore Flowcharts That Japanese Aquariums Use to Document the Romantic Lives of Penguins (0)
- 15: Twilight Zone Morality Tales: A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion (#52) (1)
- 14: Orson Welles Narrates Animations of Plato’s Cave and Kafka’s “Before the Law,” Two Parables of the Human Condition (1)
- 14: The Only Surviving Script Written by Shakespeare Is Now Online (0)
- 14: Nursing Home Residents Replace Famous Rock Stars on Iconic Album Covers (0)
- 13: Cambridge University Professor Cooks 4000-Year-Old Recipes from Ancient Mesopotamia, and Lets You See How They Turned Out (3)
- 13: An Introduction to Hagia Sophia: After 85 Years as a Museum, It’s Set to Become a Mosque Again (3)
- 13: Emma Willard, the First Woman Mapmaker in America, Creates Pioneering Maps of Time to Teach Students about Democracy (Circa 1851) (0)
- 13: A Bear Shows Off Its Nunchuck Skills (0)
- 12: The Muppets Sing the First & Second Acts of Hamilton (3)
- 10: Bill Nye Shows How Face Masks Actually Protect You–and Why You Should Wear Them (8)
- 10: A Free Stanford Course on How to Teach Online: Designed for Middle & High School Teachers (July 13 – 17) (31)
- 10: Bisa Butler’s Beautiful Quilted Portraits of Frederick Douglass, Nina Simone, Jean-Michel Basquiat & More (2)
- 09: An Introduction to Jean Baudrillard, Who Predicted the Simulation-Like Reality in Which We Live (2)
- 09: Watch the Famous James Baldwin-William F. Buckley Debate in Full, With Restored Audio (1965) (3)
- 09: Buddhist Monk Covers Judas Priest’s “Breaking the Law,” Then Breaks Into Meditation (2)
- 09: Does Every Picture Tell a Story? A Conversation with Artist Joseph Watson for Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #51 (0)
- 08: Explore the Beautiful Pages of the 1902 Japanese Design Magazine Shin-Bijutsukai: European Modernism Meets Traditional Japanese Design (1)
- 08: A Chilling Time-Lapse Video Documents Every COVID-19 Death on a Global Map: From January to June 2020 (4)
- 08: Salvador Dalí Explains Why He Was a “Bad Painter” and Contributed “Nothing” to Art (1986) (1)
- 07: Ennio Morricone (RIP) and Sergio Leone Pose Together in Their Primary School Year Book, 1937 (0)
- 07: The Film Music of Ennio Morricone (RIP) Beautifully Performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra Play: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” & Much More (1)
- 07: Vintage Science Face Masks: Conquer the Pandemic with Science, Courtesy of Maria Popova’s BrainPickings (0)
- 07: The Ayn Rand Institute Takes a Loan from Paycheck Protection Program: Like Rand Herself, Her Followers Don’t Walk the Talk (9)
- 07: Ella Fitzgerald’s Lost Interview about Racism & Segregation: Recorded in 1963, It’s Never Been Heard Until Now (0)
- 06: Watch Vintage Footage of Tokyo, Circa 1910, Get Brought to Life with Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 06: Did the CIA Write the Scorpions’ “Wind of Change,” One of the Bestselling Songs of All Time? (5)
- 06: Thomas Jefferson’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandson Poses for a Presidential Portrait (5)
- 03: Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks’ Timeless Comedy Sketch: The 2000-Year-Old-Man (0)
- 03: 16th Century Bookwheels, the E-Readers of the Renaissance, Get Brought to Life by 21st Century Designers (1)
- 03: When Debbie Harry Combined Artistic Forces with H.R. Giger (0)
- 02: An Animated Introduction to the Pioneering Anthropologist Margaret Mead (0)
- 02: An Animated Introduction to Noam Chomsky’s Groundbreaking Linguistic Theories (3)
- 02: John Prine’s Last Song Was Also His First to Go No. 1: Watch Him Perform “I Remember Everything” (5)
- 02: Michael Jordan’s “The Last Dance” and Hero Worship: A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast Discussion (#50) (1)
- 01: How Ornette Coleman Shaped the Jazz World: An Introduction to His Irreverent Sound (2)
- 01: A 1947 French Film Accurately Predicted Our 21st-Century Addiction to Smartphones (0)
- 01: How Two Teenage Dutch Sisters Ended Up Joining the Resistance and Assassinating Nazis During World War II (3)
- June 2020 (84)
- 30: When the Beatles Refused to Play Before Segregated Audiences on Their First U.S. Tour (1964) (5)
- 30: An Immaculate Copy of Leonardo’s The Last Supper Digitized by Google: View It in High Resolution Online (3)
- 30: Rewatch Every Episode of The Sopranos with the Talking Sopranos Podcast, Hosted by Michael Imperioli & Steve Schirripa (0)
- 29: The Beastie Boys & Rick Rubin Reunite and Revisit Their Formative Time Together in 1980s NYC (0)
- 29: Milton Glaser (RIP) Explains Why We Must Overcome the Fear of Failure, Take Risks & Discover Our True Potential (0)
- 29: Behold Octavia Butler’s Motivational Notes to Self (4)
- 28: Milton Glaser (RIP) Presents 10 Rules for Life & Work: Wisdom from the Celebrated Designer (0)
- 26: Explore 1,100 Works of Art by Georgia O’Keeffe: They’re Now Digitized and Free to View Online (6)
- 26: Saxophonist Plays into Large Gas Pipes & Then Uses the Echo to Accompany Himself (0)
- 26: Nile Rodgers Tells the Story of How He Turned David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” from Folk to New Wave Funk (3)
- 25: Get a First Glimpse of Foundation, the New TV Series Being Adapted from Isaac Asimov’s Iconic Series of Novels (6)
- 25: Hear Brian Eno’s Rarely-Heard Cover of the Johnny Cash Classic, “Ring of Fire” (3)
- 25: Hear the Voices of Americans Born in Slavery: The Library of Congress Features 23 Audio Interviews with Formerly Enslaved People (1932-75) (5)
- 25: The End of an Era: A Short Film About The Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at The New York Times (1978) (3)
- 24: How Georgia O’Keeffe Became Georgia O’Keeffe: An Animated Video Tells the Story (1)
- 24: Martin Amis Explains His Method for Writing Great Sentences (1)
- 24: Neil Armstrong Sets Straight an Internet Truther Who Accused Him of Faking the Moon Landing (2000) (4)
- 24: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #49 Considers Conspiracy Theories as Pop (0)
- 23: The World According to Le Corbusier: An Animated Introduction to the Most Modern of All Architects (0)
- 23: Watch Hundreds of Free Films from Around the World: Explore Film Archives from Japan, France, and the U.S. (0)
- 23: John Trumbull’s Famous 1818 Painting Declaration of Independence Virtually Defaced to Show Which Founding Fathers Owned Slaves (11)
- 22: Miles Davis is Attacked, Beaten & Arrested by the NYPD Outside Birdland, Eight Days After the Release of Kind of Blue (1959) (1)
- 22: Exquisite 2300-Year-Old Scythian Woman’s Boot Preserved in the Frozen Ground of the Altai Mountains (33)
- 22: Barcelona Opera Re-Opens with a Performance for 2,300 Potted Plants: Watch It Online (0)
- 22: In 1968, a Teenager Convinced Thelonious Monk to Play a Gig at His High School to Promote Racial Unity; Now the Concert Recording Is Getting Released (3)
- 22: How One Simple Cut Reveals the Cinematic Genius of Yasujirō Ozu (0)
- 19: Rick Astley Sings an Unexpectedly Enchanting Cover of the Foo Fighters’ “Everlong” (1)
- 19: Construct Your Own Bayeux Tapestry with This Free Online App (3)
- 19: How Fast Can a Vaccine Be Made?: An Animated Introduction (0)
- 19: Why This Font Is Everywhere: How Cooper Black Became Pop Culture’s Favorite Font (1)
- 18: Take Free Online Courses on African-American History from Yale and Stanford: From Emancipation, to the Civil Rights Movement, and Beyond (75)
- 18: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris Shot by Shot: A 22-Minute Breakdown of the Director’s Filmmaking (1)
- 18: The Grateful Dead’s “Ripple” Played By Musicians Around the World (with Cameos by David Crosby, Jimmy Buffett & Bill Kreutzmann) (9)
- 17: Artificial Intelligence Brings to Life Figures from 7 Famous Paintings: The Mona Lisa, Birth of Venus & More (5)
- 17: Tom Jones Performs “Long Time Gone” with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young–and Blows the Band & Audience Away (1969) (5)
- 17: John Cleese’s Comedically Explains the Psychological Advantages of Extremism: “It Makes You Feel Good Because It Provides You with Enemies” (3)
- 17: When Punk & Reggae Fans Launched the “Rock Against Racism” Movement and Pushed Back Against Britain’s Racist Right (1976) (3)
- 17: Can Reality TV Save the Fine Arts? Body Painter Robin Slonina (Skin Wars) on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #47 (0)
- 16: When John Maynard Keynes Predicted a 15-Hour Workweek “in a Hundred Year’s Time” (1930) (0)
- 16: A Collection of 500 Free Textbooks from Springer (6)
- 16: The Bird Library: A Library Built Especially for Our Fine Feathered Friends (0)
- 15: Listen to Medieval Covers of “Creep,” “Pumped Up Kicks,” “Bad Romance” & More by Hildegard von Blingin’ (7)
- 15: An Introduction to Thought Forms, the Pioneering 1905 Theosophist Book That Inspired Abstract Art: It Has Returned to Print (1)
- 15: Take a Virtual Drive through London, Tokyo, Los Angeles & 45 Other World Cities (0)
- 12: Hear Enchanting Mixes of Japanese Pop, Jazz, Funk, Disco, Soul, and R&B from the 70s and 80s (0)
- 12: After MLK’s Assassination, a Schoolteacher Conducted a Famous Experiment–“Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes”–to Teach Kids About Discrimination (6)
- 12: Revisiting The Wire During 2020’s Black Lives Matter Movement (1)
- 12: Explaining the Pandemic to My Past Self: A Dark, Comedic Reflection on the Last Few Months (0)
- 11: Tom Morello Responds to Angry Fans Who Suddenly Realize That Rage Against the Machine’s Music Is Political: “What Music of Mine DIDN’T Contain Political BS?” (29)
- 11: A Rare Smile Captured in a 19th Century Photograph (3)
- 11: Why James Baldwin’s Writing Stays Powerful: An Artfully Animated Introduction to the Author of Notes of a Native Son (1)
- 10: David Lynch Posts His Nightmarish Sitcom Rabbits Online–the Show That Psychologists Use to Induce a Sense of Existential Crisis in Research Subjects (1)
- 10: Daniel Radcliffe Writes a Thoughtful Response to J.K. Rowling’s Statements about Trans Women (24)
- 10: Is This the Most Accurate Fan Cover of the Beatles Ever? Hear a Faithful Recreation of the Abbey Road Medley (4)
- 10: Are There Limits for a Sitcom Premise? A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast (#47) Discussion and Quiz (0)
- 09: Al Jaffee, Iconic Mad Magazine Cartoonist, Retires at Age 99 … and Leaves Behind Advice About Living the Creative Life (1)
- 09: How the “First Photojournalist,” Mathew Brady, Shocked the Nation with Photos from the Civil War (1)
- 09: Imagining the Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Debate That Never Happened (0)
- 08: An Anti-Racist Reading List: 20 Books Recommended by Open Culture Readers (5)
- 08: Watch a Mesmerizing Stream of Unwatched YouTube Videos: Astronaut.io Lets You Discover the Hidden Dimensions of the World’s Largest Video Platform (0)
- 08: David Lynch Recounts His Surreal Dream of Being a German Solider Dying on D-Day (0)
- 08: Sir Isaac Newton’s Cure for the Plague: Powdered Toad Vomit Lozenges (1669) (0)
- 07: Noam Chomsky Explains the Best Way for Ordinary People to Make Change in the World, Even When It Seems Daunting (1)
- 06: Ava DuVernay’s Selma Is Now Free to Stream Online: Watch the Award-Winning Director’s Film About Martin Luther King’s 1965 Voting-Rights March (0)
- 05: Watch Ava DuVernay’s 13th Free Online: An Award-Winning Documentary Revealing the Inequalities in the US Criminal Justice System (2)
- 05: Documentary Portraits of Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, William Carlos Williams, Anne Sexton & Other American Poets (1965) (1)
- 05: Watch Free Films by African American Filmmakers in the Criterion Collection … and the New Civil Rights Film, Just Mercy (0)
- 05: When Lucy Lawless Impersonated Stevie Nicks & Imagined Her as the Owner of a Bad Tex-Mex Restaurant: A Cult Classic SNL Skit (6)
- 04: How Jazz Helped Fuel the 1960s Civil Rights Movement (6)
- 04: How David Chase Breathed Life into the The Sopranos (0)
- 04: The History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic, “The Deadliest Epidemic of All Time”: Three Free Lectures from The Great Courses (0)
- 04: An Introduction to the Sublime, Entrepreneurial Art of Christo & Jeanne-Claude (Courtesy of Alain de Botton’s School of Life) (0)
- 03: Watch Martin Scorsese’s Brand New Short Film, Made Entirely in His Office Under Quarantine (0)
- 03: Spike Lee Debuts the Short Film “3 Brothers”: A Remake of Do the Right Thing for Our Dark Times (6)
- 03: Why Should We Read Melville’s Moby-Dick? A TED-Ed Animation Makes the Case (2)
- 03: What Is a “Casual Game?” Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #46 Talks to Nick Fortugno, Creator of “Diner Dash” (0)
- 02: When Al Capone Opened a Soup Kitchen During the Great Depression: Another Side of the Legendary Mobster’s Operation (0)
- 02: Gil Scott-Heron Spells Out Why “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” (5)
- 02: When Afrobeat Legend Fela Kuti Collaborated with Cream Drummer Ginger Baker (0)
- 01: The History of the Batmobile: A Free Documentary (0)
- 01: Saul Alinsky’s 13 Tried-and-True Rules for Creating Meaningful Social Change (3)
- 01: What Makes a Cover Song Great?: Our Favorites & Yours (7)
- 01: Magnificent Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed in Verona, Italy (1)
- 01: How the Visionary Artist Christo (RIP) Changed the Way We See the World (0)
- May 2020 (78)
- 31: The Best Campaign Slogan of 2020 (So Far)
- 31: Led Zeppelin’s 2007 Reunion Concert Streaming Free for a Limited Time (0)
- 29: An Analysis of Quentin Tarantino’s Films Narrated (Mostly) by Quentin Tarantino (0)
- 29: An Emotional Journey into the Heart of August Sander’s Iconic Photograph, “Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance” (1)
- 29: This Is What The Matrix Looks Like Without CGI: A Special Effects Breakdown (0)
- 28: 50 Songs from a Single Year, Mixed Together Into One 3-Minute Song (1979-89) (0)
- 28: How Humphrey Bogart Became an Icon: A Video Essay (1)
- 28: Albert Einstein Explains Why We Need to Read the Classics (0)
- 28: Is It Rude to Talk Over a Film? MST3K’s Mary Jo Pehl on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #45 (0)
- 27: The Expansive Vocal Range of Joni Mitchell: From the Early to Later Years (3)
- 27: J.K. Rowling Is Publishing Her New Children’s Novel Free Online, One Chapter Per Day (14)
- 27: This Is What an 1869 MIT Entrance Exam Looks Like: Could You Have Passed the Test? (0)
- 26: The 135 Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind: An Introduction to Our New List (8)
- 26: Clare Torry’s Rare Live Performances of “Great Gig in the Sky” with Pink Floyd (5)
- 26: A Nearly Impossible Sudoku Puzzle Solved in a Mesmerizing 25-Minute Video (3)
- 25: This Huge Crashing Wave in a Seoul Aquarium Is Actually a Gigantic Optical Illusion (0)
- 25: Stream 15 Audio Drama Podcasts & Get Through COVID-19: Features Rami Malek, Catherine Keener, Tim Robbins & More (1)
- 25: Iggy Pop, David Byrne, and More Come Together with Bedtime Stories (For Grownups) (0)
- 22: Watch Joni Mitchell Sing an Immaculate Version of Her Song “Coyote,” with Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn & Gordon Lightfoot (1975) (24)
- 22: Bill Gates Recommends 5 Thought-Provoking Books to Read This Summer (3)
- 22: The Evocativeness of Decomposing Film: Watch the 1926 Hollywood Movie The Bells Become the Experimental 2004 Short Film, Light Is Calling (1)
- 22: How “Strawberry Fields Forever” Contains “the Craziest Edit” in Beatles History (6)
- 22: Studio Ghibli Producer Toshio Suzuki Teaches You How to Draw Totoro in Two Minutes (0)
- 21: Watch 36 Beastie Boys Videos Now Remastered in HD (0)
- 21: David Lynch Releases an Animated Film Online: Watch Fire (Pozar) (1)
- 21: A Soul Train-Style Detroit Dance Show Gets Down to Kraftwerk’s “Numbers” in the Late 80s (1)
- 20: The Original Star Wars Trilogy Adapted into a 14-Hour Radio Drama by NPR (1981-1996) (9)
- 20: “Prince and the Revolution: Live,” the Historic 1985 Concert Is Streaming Online (0)
- 20: Robert Fripp & King Crimson Perform a Stirring Cover of “Heroes,” Shortly after David Bowie’s Death (2016) (1)
- 20: Does Local News Deserve More of Your Attention? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #44 w/ Deion Broxton of Bison Meme Fame (0)
- 19: 1930s Phonograph Doubled as an Alarm Clock, Letting People Start Their Day with Their Favorite Record (1)
- 19: Haruki Murakami Will Host a Radio Show & Help Listeners “Blow Away Some of the Corona-Related Blues” (0)
- 19: Write Only 500 Words Per Day and Publish 50+ Books: Graham Greene’s Writing Method (2)
- 18: Nikola Tesla’s Grades from High School & University: A Fascinating Glimpse (0)
- 18: DEVO Is Now Selling COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment: Energy Dome Face Shields (3)
- 18: An Archive of 1,000 “Peel Sessions” Available Online: Hear David Bowie, Bob Marley, Elvis Costello & Others Play in the Studio of Legendary BBC DJ John Peel (2)
- 17: Roger Waters Performs a Socially-Distanced Version of Pink Floyd’s “Mother” (3)
- 15: Japanese Health Manual Created During the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic Offers Timeless Wisdom: Stay Away from Others, Cover Your Mouth & Nose, and More (2)
- 15: Breathtakingly-Detailed Tibetan Book Printed 40 Years Before the Gutenberg Bible (5)
- 15: John Mayer Teaches Guitarists How to Play the Blues in a 45-Minute Masterclass (4)
- 14: The Largest & Most Detailed Photograph of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch Is Now Online: Zoom In & See Every Brush Stroke (1)
- 14: The Shakespeare and Company Project Digitizes the Records of the Famous Bookstore, Showing the Reading Habits of the Lost Generation (2)
- 14: Hyperland: The “Fantasy Documentary” in Which Douglas Adams and Doctor Who‘s Tom Baker Imagine the World Wide Web (1990) (2)
- 13: David Lynch Creates Daily Weather Reports for Los Angeles: How the Filmmaker Passes Time in Quarantine (0)
- 13: Nina Simone Song “Color Is a Beautiful Thing” Animated in a Gorgeous Video (0)
- 13: William Blake Illustrates Mary Wollstonecraft’s Work of Children’s Literature, Original Stories from Real Life (1791) (1)
- 13: Decoding Korean Cinema: A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast (ep. 43) (0)
- 12: 16 Ways the World Is Getting Remarkably Better: Visuals by Statistician Hans Rosling (2)
- 12: Radiohead’s “Spectre” Played Against the Title Sequence of the 2015 James Bond Film, Spectre (4)
- 12: How Music Unites Us All: Herbie Hancock & Kamasi Washington in Conversation (0)
- 11: Salvador Dalí’s Tarot Cards, Cookbook & Wine Guide Re-Issued as Beautiful Art Books (4)
- 11: Little Richard Burst Into the “Then-Macho World of Rock” and “Changed it Forever” (0)
- 11: The Case for a Universal Basic Income in the Time of COVID-19 (3)
- 11: Take a Virtual Tour of the Mütter Museum and Its Many Anatomically Peculiar Exhibits (1)
- 08: Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity–Take a Free & Timely Course Online (2)
- 08: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Share One Free” Deal (Until the End of the Weekend) (1)
- 08: Robert Fripp Releases Free Ambient Music to Get You Through the Lockdown: Enjoy “Music for Quiet Moments” (2)
- 08: A Virtual Tour Inside the Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli Museum (0)
- 08: Download Free Doctor Who Backgrounds for Virtual Meetings (Plus Many Other BBC TV Shows) (0)
- 07: The Earliest Known Motion Picture, 1888’s Roundhay Garden Scene, Restored with Artificial Intelligence (0)
- 07: Watch Florian Schneider (RIP) in Classic Early Kraftwerk Performances (2)
- 07: Patti Smith’s Self Portraits: Another Side of the Prolific Artist (0)
- 07: Star Trek: World-Building Over Generations—Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #42 (0)
- 06: Juilliard Students & the New York Philharmonic Perform Ravel’s Bolero While Social Distancing in Quarantine (1)
- 06: 3D Interactive Globes Now Online: Spin Through an Archive of Globes from the 17th and 18th Century (0)
- 06: Drive-In Concerts and Even Raves Are Becoming the Rage in Europe (0)
- 05: ‘Never Be Afraid’: William Faulkner’s Speech to His Daughter’s Graduating Class in 1951 (6)
- 05: Quarantined Family Re-Creates Journey’s “Separate Ways” Video Shot-by-Shot (4)
- 05: Take Hannah Arendt’s Final Exam for Her 1961 Course “On Revolution” (1)
- 05: Watch a Screen Test of 21-Year-Old Orson Welles (1937) (0)
- 04: Peruvian Singer & Rapper, Renata Flores, Helps Preserve Quechua with Viral Hits on YouTube (0)
- 04: Watch Jean-Luc Godard’s Filmmaking Masterclass on Instagram (0)
- 04: The Art of the New Deal: Why the Federal Government Funded the Arts During the Great Depression (5)
- 04: Take a Virtual Tour of the World’s Only Sourdough Library (0)
- 01: The Doobie Brothers Sing Their 1974 Classic, “Black Water,” Live, in Isolation (20)
- 01: The Stay At Home Museum: Your Private, Guided Tours of Rubens, Bruegel & Other Flemish Masters (1)
- 01: 500+ Beautiful Manuscripts from the Islamic World Now Digitized & Free to Download (2)
- 01: The Library of Congress Makes Its Archives Free for DJs to Remix: Introducing the “Citizen DJ” Project (2)
- April 2020 (86)
- 30: The British Museum Puts 1.9 Million Works of Art Online (5)
- 30: Bertrand Russell Remembers His Face-to-Face Encounter with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (4)
- 30: A Michigan Family Makes Everyone Passing Their House Do Monty Python Silly Walks, and Then Puts Recordings on Instagram (2)
- 30: Soundtrack Composer Craig Wedren (Zoey’s Playlist, Glow, Shrill) Joins Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #41 on TV Musicals (0)
- 29: When David Bowie Launched His Own Internet Service Provider: The Rise and Fall of BowieNet (1998) (2)
- 29: Scenes of Ezra Pound Wandering Through Venice and Reading from His Famous Pisan Cantos (1967) (0)
- 29: An Unbelievably Detailed, Hand-Drawn Map Lets You Explore the Rich Collections of the Met Museum (1)
- 29: Metallica Is Putting Free Concerts Online: 6 Now Streaming, with More to Come (1)
- 28: Radiohead Covers The Smiths & New Order (2007) (2)
- 28: When IBM Created a Typewriter to Record Dance Movements (1973) (0)
- 28: Watch Free Plays from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre: Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth & More (1)
- 28: Watch Picasso Create a Masterpiece in Just Five Minutes (1955) (2)
- 27: Hear Classic Rock Songs Played on a Baroque Lute: “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “White Room” & More (1)
- 27: Watch 12 Classic Chinese Films Online, Complete with English Subtitles (1920s-1940s) (1)
- 26: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Launch a 24/7 Livestream on YouTube, Featuring Rare Footage from the Band’s Archives (1)
- 24: New Hilma af Klint Documentary Explores the Life & Art of the Trailblazing Abstract Artist (1)
- 24: The Rolling Stones Release a Timely Track, “Living in a Ghost Town”: Their First New Music in Eight Years (2)
- 24: Experience New York City’s Fabled Mid-Century Nightclubs in an Interactive, COVID-19-Era, Student-Designed Exhibit (1)
- 24: Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii Streaming Free on YouTube Today Only (3)
- 23: Albert Einstein’s Grades: A Fascinating Look at His Report Cards (4)
- 23: How to Find Emotional Strength & Resilience During COVID-19: Advice from Elizabeth Gilbert, Jack Kornfield, Susan David & Other Experts (5)
- 23: David Hockney on Vincent van Gogh & the Importance of Knowing How to Truly See the World (0)
- 23: Benedict Cumberbatch, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Fry & Others Read Letters of Hope, Love & Support During COVID-19 (2)
- 22: Vintage Book & Record Covers Brought to Life in a Mesmerizing Animated Video (2)
- 22: Japanese Designer Creates Free Template for an Anti-Virus Face Shield: Download, and Then Use a Printer, Paper & Scissors (1)
- 22: 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & More (1)
- 22: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #40 on #MeToo Depictions in TV and Film (1)
- 21: Take a Virtual Tour of the Andy Warhol Exhibition at the Tate Modern (0)
- 21: Watch 270+ Short Documentaries of Artists at Work, and Let Them Inspire Your Creative Process (0)
- 21: Museum Curators Create a Contest to See Who Has the Creepiest Object: Ancient Body Parts, Cursed Toys, and More (1)
- 21: Mark Knopfler Plays a Poignant, Overdriven Version of “The Last Post,” Remembering the Many Lives Lost in World War I (2)
- 20: Pink Floyd Streaming Free Classic Concert Films, Starting with 1994’s Pulse, the First Live Performance of Dark Side of the Moon in Full (2)
- 20: Netflix Makes Documentaries Free to Stream: Design, Politics, Sports, Sir David Attenborough & More (0)
- 20: Quarantine Cooking: 13 Professional Chefs Cook Pasta at Home with the Most Basic Ingredients Available (0)
- 20: Banksy Debuts His COVID-19 Art Project: Good to See That He Has TP at Home (0)
- 18: Watch the Rolling Stones Play “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” While Social Distancing in Quarantine (31)
- 18: Neil Finn Sings a Lovely Version of David Bowie’s “Heroes,” Live from Home (5)
- 17: Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli Releases Free Backgrounds for Virtual Meetings: Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away & More (6)
- 17: Watch Samuel Beckett Walk the Streets of Berlin Like a Boss, 1969 (0)
- 17: How to Paint Water Lilies Like Monet in 14 Minutes (0)
- 16: Experience the Van Gogh Museum in 4K Resolution: A Video Tour in Seven Parts (2)
- 16: See Web Cams of Surreally Empty City Streets in Venice, New York, London & Beyond (1)
- 16: Take a Long Virtual Tour of the Louvre in Three High-Definition Videos (2)
- 15: Louis Armstrong Remembers How He Survived the 1918 Flu Epidemic in New Orleans (2)
- 15: A Playlist of Songs to Get You Through Hard Times: Stream 20 Tracks from the Alan Lomax Collection (0)
- 15: A Vintage Advertising Film Intelligently Satirizes the Selling of the American Dream: Watch The Your Name Here Story (1960) (0)
- 14: Rare Grooves on Vinyl from Around the World: Hear Curated Playlists of Arabic, Brazilian, Bollywood, Soviet & Turkish Music (0)
- 14: Why is Vermeer’s “Girl with the Pearl Earring” Considered a Masterpiece?: An Animated Introduction (0)
- 14: Free Books About Pandemic & Contagion from Duke University Press (3)
- 13: 12 Famous Frank Lloyd Wright Houses Offer Virtual Tours: Hollyhock House, Taliesin West, Fallingwater & More (0)
- 13: Watch Full Productions of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Musicals, Streaming Free for 48 Hours Every Weekend (0)
- 13: Radiohead Will Stream Concerts Free Online Until the Pandemic Comes to an End (1)
- 13: Japanese Buddhist Monk Covers Ramones’ “Teenage Lobotomy,” “Queen’s “We Will Rock You,” Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” & More (1)
- 12: Stream Andrea Bocelli’s Easter Concert from Milan (2)
- 12: Nikon Offers Free Online Photography Courses in April (2)
- 10: A 30-Minute Introduction to Japanese Jazz from the 1970s: Like Japanese Whisky, It’s Underrated, But Very High Quality (6)
- 10: Coursera Makes Courses & Certificates Free During Coronavirus Quarantine: Take Courses in Psychology, Music, Wellness, Professional Development & More Online (4)
- 10: An Art Gallery for Gerbils: Two Quarantined Londoners Create a Mini Museum Complete with Gerbil-Themed Art (1)
- 09: Musicians Around the World Play “Lean on Me,” the Uplifting Song by Bill Withers (RIP) (5)
- 09: 365 Free Movies Streaming on YouTube (10)
- 08: How Can Boccaccio’s 14th Century Decameron Help Us Live Through COVID-19? (1)
- 08: A Free Shakespeare Coloring Book: While Away the Hours Coloring in Illustrations of 35 Classic Plays (2)
- 08: Remembering American Songwriting Legend John Prine (RIP): “A True Folk Singer in the Best Folk Tradition” (0)
- 08: One of the Earliest Known Uses of the “F-word” Discovered: It Appears in a 1568 Anthology Compiled During a Plague (5)
- 08: The Power of Costuming in Film: Pretty Much Pop #38 with Whitney Anne Adams (Happy Death Day, Great Gatsby) (0)
- 07: Bill Murray Explains How He Was Saved by John Prine (3)
- 07: Dyson Creates 44 Free Engineering & Science Challenges for Kids Quarantined During COVID-19 (8)
- 07: Meet Notorious Art Forger Han Van Meegeren, Who Fooled the Nazis with His Counterfeit Vermeers (0)
- 07: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animated Short “Hair Love” (1)
- 07: A 1665 Advertisement Promises a “Famous and Effectual” Cure for the Great Plague (2)
- 07: Classic Songs Re-Imagined as Vintage Book Covers During Our Troubled Times: “Under Pressure,” “It’s the End of the World as We Know It,” “Shelter from the Storm” & More (0)
- 06: What is Albert Camus’ The Plague About? An Introduction (0)
- 06: Ingenious Improvised Recreations of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Using Materials Found Around the House (1)
- 06: “It’s the End of the World as We Know It,” Michael Stipe Proclaims Again, and He Still Feels Fine (1)
- 06: Customize Your Zoom Virtual Background with Free Works of Art (2)
- 03: HBO Is Streaming 500 Hours of Shows for Free: The Sopranos, The Wire, and More (11)
- 03: Join Choir! Choir! Choir! for a Community Singalong in Isolation (0)
- 03: Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew Turns 50: Celebrate the Funk-Jazz-Psych-Rock Masterpiece (0)
- 02: Pandemic Literature: A Meta-List of the Books You Should Read in Coronavirus Quarantine (10)
- 02: Dolly Parton Will Read Bedtime Stories to You Every Week (0)
- 02: This is What Richard Feynman’s PhD Thesis Looks Like: A Video Introduction (2)
- 02: Why Did LEGO Become a Media Empire? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #37 (0)
- 01: Samuel L. Jackson Reads “Stay the F**k at Home” (0)
- 01: Watch Online 75 Short Films from 2020’s South by Southwest Festival (1)
- 01: Pachelbel’s Canon Played by Train Horns (0)
- 01: Simulating an Epidemic: Using Data to Show How Diseases Like COVID-19 Spread (0)
- March 2020 (89)
- 31: The Band’s Classic Song, “The Weight,” Sung by Musicians Around the World: With Robbie Robertson, Ringo Starr & Other Special Guests (7)
- 31: Explore the Entire World–from the Comfort of Quarantine–with 4K Walking Tours (3)
- 31: Download Classic Works of Plague Fiction: From Daniel Defoe & Mary Shelley, to Edgar Allan Poe (2)
- 31: Take a 3D Tour Through Ancient Giza, Including the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx & More (4)
- 30: The Foot-Licking Demons & Other Strange Things in a 1921 Illustrated Manuscript from Iran (4)
- 30: Bob Dylan Releases a Cryptic 17-Minute Song about the JFK Assassination: Hear a “Murder Most Foul” (1)
- 30: What the Iconic Painting, “The Two Fridas,” Actually Tells Us About Frida Kahlo (0)
- 30: The Cork-Lined Bedroom & Writing Room of Marcel Proust, the Original Master of Social Distancing (1)
- 29: Watch 3,000+ Films Free Online from the National Film Board of Canada (1)
- 27: The National Emergency Library Makes 1.5 Million Books Free to Read Right Now (10)
- 27: Spring Break vs. COVID-19: Mapping the Real Impact of Ignoring Social Distancing (15)
- 27: Watch a Sweet Film Adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Story, “Long Walk to Forever” (0)
- 26: Nine Inch Nails Releases 2 Free Albums: They’re Now Ready to Download (0)
- 26: Patrick Stewart Is Reading Every Shakespeare Sonnet on Instagram: One a Day “to Keep the Doctor Away” (4)
- 26: How to Teach and Learn Philosophy During the Pandemic: A Collection of 450+ Philosophy Videos Free Online (4)
- 26: Stream All 18 Hours of Ken Burns’ Baseball for Free on What Would Have Been Opening Day (1)
- 26: What’s the Function of Criticism? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #36 with Critic Noah Berlatsky (0)
- 25: Free: Austin City Limits Opens Up Video Archives During COVID-19 Pandemic (0)
- 25: Take a Virtual Tour of the Paris Catacombs (0)
- 25: What Happened to U.S. Cities That Practiced–and Didn’t Practice–Social Distancing During 1918’s “Spanish Flu” (0)
- 25: Watch Curated Playlists of Experimental Videos & Films to Get You Through COVID-19: Miranda July, Jan Švankmajer, Guy Maddin & More (0)
- 25: Meet the World’s First Known Author: Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna (2)
- 24: The “Feynman Technique” for Studying Effectively: An Animated Primer (0)
- 24: Japanese Artist Has Drawn Every Meal He’s Eaten for 32 Years: Behold the Delicious Illustrations of Itsuo Kobayashi (1)
- 24: Watch “Coronavirus Outbreak: What You Need to Know,” and the 24-Lecture Course “An Introduction to Infectious Diseases,” Both Free from The Great Courses (0)
- 23: Digital Archives Give You Free Access to Thousands of Historical Children’s Books (0)
- 23: Free Online Drawing Lessons for Kids, Led by Favorite Artists & Illustrators (41)
- 23: When Orson Welles Crossed Paths With Hitler (and Churchill): “He Had No Personality…. I Think There Was Nothing There.” (4)
- 21: Take a Virtual Tour of 30 World-Class Museums & Safely Visit 2 Million Works of Fine Art (2)
- 21: Dead & Company Announces Couch Tour, Letting You Stream Free Concerts at Home (1)
- 20: Soothing, Uplifting Resources for Parents & Caregivers Stressed by the COVID-19 Crisis (2)
- 20: A Short, Animated Film Shows How a Scientific Article Gets Published: “Excitement, Baby Steps and Reams of Rejections” (0)
- 20: How a Virus Spreads, and How to Avoid It: A Former NASA Engineer Demonstrates with a Blacklight in a Classroom (2)
- 20: Watch AI-Restored Film of Laborers Going Through Life in Victorian England (1901) (0)
- 19: Audible Providing Free Audio Books to Kids & Teens: Introducing the New Service, Audible Stories (0)
- 19: Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks: The 2020 Edition (0)
- 19: The Books We Can Use to Rebuild Civilization, Selected by Neal Stephenson, Brian Eno, Tim O’Reilly & More (5)
- 19: 6 Minute Reprieve From the World’s Troubles, Courtesy of Tilda Swinton, Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, and Five Springer Spaniels (1)
- 19: Linked Jazz: A Huge Data Visualization Maps the Relationships Between Countless Jazz Musicians & Restores Forgotten Women to Jazz History (0)
- 18: Bruce Springsteen Releases Live Concert Film Online: Watch “London Calling: Live In Hyde Park” and Practice Self Distancing (0)
- 18: “I Will Survive,” the Coronavirus Version for Teachers Going Online (7)
- 18: Live Performers Now Streaming Shows, from their Homes to Yours: Neil Young, Coldplay, Broadway Stars, Metropolitan Operas & More (0)
- 18: David Bowie’s Rise as Ziggy Stardust Documented in a New 300-Page Photo Book (1)
- 18: Are Video Games an Effective Vehicle for Storytelling? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #35 Featuring Don Marshall (0)
- 17: Why Fighting the Coronavirus Depends on You (0)
- 17: While Away the Hours with a Free H.P. Lovecraft Call of Cthulhu Coloring Book (0)
- 17: The Met Opera Streaming Free Operas Online to Get You Through COVID-19 (7)
- 17: Isaac Newton Conceived of His Most Groundbreaking Ideas During the Great Plague of 1665 (0)
- 17: A 5-Hour, One-Take Cinematic Tour of Russia’s Hermitage Museum, Shot Entirely on an iPhone (2)
- 16: Use Your Time in Isolation to Learn Everything You’ve Always Wanted To: Free Online Courses, Audio Books, eBooks, Movies, Coloring Books & More (14)
- 16: How Patti Smith “Saved” Rock and Roll: A New Video Makes the Case (8)
- 16: Italians’ Nightly Singalongs Prove That Music Soothes the Savage Beast of Coronavirus Quarantine & Self-Isolation (0)
- 15: Quarantined Italians Send a Message to Themselves 10 Days Ago: What They Wish They Knew Then (72)
- 13: Zoom Providing K-12 Schools Free Access to Videoconferencing Tools During COVID-19 Crisis: They’ll Power Your Online Courses (5)
- 13: Why You Should Read The Plague, the Albert Camus Novel the Coronavirus Has Made a Bestseller Again (2)
- 13: Covering Robert Johnson’s Blues Became a Rite of Rock ‘n’ Roll Passage: Hear Covers by The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Howlin’ Wolf, Lucinda Williams & More (3)
- 12: Coursera Providing Free Access to Its Course Catalog to Universities Impacted by COVID-19 (0)
- 12: Spanish Flu: A Warning from History (3)
- 12: The Meaning of Life According to Simone de Beauvoir (0)
- 12: The History of the Plague: Every Major Epidemic in an Animated Map (4)
- 12: How Schools Can Start Teaching Online in a Short Period of Time: Free Tutorials from the Stanford Online High School (4)
- 11: Bill Gates Describes His Biggest Fear: “I Rate the Chance of a Widespread Epidemic Far Worse Than Ebola at Well Over 50 Percent” (2015) (5)
- 11: Take a Drive Through 1940s, 50s & 60s Los Angeles with Vintage Through-the-Car-Window Films (1)
- 11: Watch 85,000 Historic Newsreel Films from British Pathé Free Online (1910-2008) (0)
- 11: Why New Diseases Like COVID-19 Keep Appearing in China (6)
- 11: The Allure of Puzzlement: Pretty Much Pop #34 w/ Adal Rifai on Escape Rooms and Other Puzzling Pastimes (0)
- 10: See How Traditional Japanese Carpenters Can Build a Whole Building Using No Nails or Screws (8)
- 10: Meet the Liverbirds, Britain’s First Female (and Now Forgotten) Rock Band (0)
- 10: Watch Scenes from Czarist Moscow Vividly Restored with Artificial Intelligence (May 1896) (4)
- 09: Paris Had a Moving Sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison Film Captured It in Action (0)
- 09: Hear the Sound of the Hagia Sophia Recreated in Authentic Byzantine Chant (1)
- 09: The Summerhill School, the Radical Educational Experiment That Let Students Learn What, When, and How They Want (1966) (6)
- 09: Jeremy Bentham’s Mummified Body Is Still on Display–Much Like Other Aging British Rock Stars (1)
- 06: Watch Scenes from Belle Époque Paris Vividly Restored with Artificial Intelligence (Circa 1890) (1)
- 06: Hear H.P. Lovecraft Horror Stories Read by Roddy McDowall (0)
- 05: The Internet Archive Hosts 20,000 VHS Recordings of Pop Culture from the 1980s & 1990s: Enter the VHS Vault (2)
- 05: How African-American Explorer Matthew Henson Became the First Person to Reach the North Pole, Then Was Forgotten for Almost 30 Years (3)
- 05: The Earth Archive Will 3D-Scan the Entire World & Create an “Open-Source” Record of Our Planet (0)
- 05: Updating Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey” to Cover Female Action Heroes–Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #33 (2)
- 04: Every Possible Melody Has Been Copyrighted, and They’re Now Released into the Public Domain (2)
- 04: Meet ‘The Afronauts’: An Introduction to Zambia’s Forgotten 1960s Space Program (1)
- 04: Mister Rogers Makes a List of His 10 Favorite Books (0)
- 03: Americans Visited Libraries Almost Twice as Often as They Went to the Movies Last Year, a New Survey Shows (0)
- 03: What Happened Hazel Scott? Meet the Brilliant Jazz Musician & Activist Who Disappeared into Obscurity When She Was Blacklisted During the McCarthy Era (0)
- 03: An Interactive Social Network of Abstract Artists: Kandinsky, Picasso, Brancusi & Many More (0)
- 03: How to Protect Yourself Against COVID-19/Coronavirus (1)
- 02: The Library of Congress Wants You to Help Transcribe Walt Whitman’s Poems & Letters: Almost 4000 Unpublished Documents Are Waiting (4)
- 02: 10 Rules of Self Discipline from the 1930 Self Help/Business Guru Napoleon Hill (0)
- 02: Chinese Museums, Closed by the Coronavirus, Put Their Exhibitions Online (0)
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- 29: The Documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Is Streaming Free for a Limited Time (0)
- 28: Free: Read the Original 23,000-Word Essay That Became Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) (0)
- 28: The Story of Physics Animated in 4 Minutes: From Galileo and Newton, to Einstein (3)
- 28: The Photos That Ended Child Labor in the US: See the “Social Photography” of Lewis Hine (1911) (2)
- 27: The Smithsonian Puts 2.8 Million High-Res Images Online and Into the Public Domain (1)
- 27: A Trip Through New York City in 1911: Vintage Video of NYC Gets Colorized & Revived with Artificial Intelligence (3)
- 27: The Shortest-Known Paper Published in a Serious Math Journal: Two Succinct Sentences (1)
- 27: Bernie Sanders Time as an Educational Filmmaker: Watch His Documentary on Socialist Activist Eugene V. Debs (1979) (0)
- 26: Janis Joplin’s Last TV Performance & Interview: The Dick Cavett Show (1970) (5)
- 26: How France Invented a Popular, Profitable Internet of Its Own in the 80s: The Rise and Fall of Minitel (0)
- 26: The Size of Asteroids Compared to New York City (0)
- 26: The Peanuts Gang Performs Pink Floyd’s Classic Rock Opera in the Mashup “Charlie Brown vs. The Wall“ (2)
- 26: Judith Butler on Nonviolence and Gender: Hear Conversation with The Partially Examined Life (1)
- 25: The Opera Database: Find Scores, Libretti & Synopses for Thousands of Operas Free Online (0)
- 25: Watch the Spectacular Hieronymus Bosch Parade, Which Floats Through the Garden of Earthly Delights Painter’s Hometown Every Year (0)
- 25: A Tribute to NASA’s Katherine Johnson (RIP): Learn About the Extraordinary Mathematician Who Broke Through America’s Race & Gender Barriers (1)
- 24: Free Courses on the Coronavirus: What You Need to Know About the Emerging Pandemic (1)
- 24: Conquer Your Vertigo and Watch this Dazzling Footage of Construction Workers Atop the Chrysler Building in 1929 (0)
- 24: Wes Anderson’s Shorts Films & Commercials: A Playlist of 8 Short Andersonian Works (0)
- 24: Military Vet Floored (Literally) by Discovery That Rolex Purchased for $341 Is Now Worth $500,000-$700,000 (0)
- 24: Why We Should Read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies: An Animated Video Makes the Case (1)
- 23: Interactive Web Site Tracks the Global Spread of the Coronavirus: Created and Supported by Johns Hopkins (2)
- 21: How Nina Simone Became Hip Hop’s “Secret Weapon”: From Lauryn Hill to Jay Z and Kanye West (0)
- 21: Peanuts Rock: Watch the Peanuts Gang Play Classic Rock Songs by Queen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Journey & More (3)
- 21: Hunter Thompson Died 15 Years Ago: Hear Him Remembered by Tom Wolfe, Johnny Depp, Ralph Steadman, and Others (4)
- 20: How William S. Burroughs Influenced Rock and Roll, from the 1960s to Today (1)
- 20: Electronic Musician Shows How He Uses His Prosthetic Arm to Control a Music Synthesizer with His Thoughts (0)
- 20: Salvador Dalí Strolls onto The Dick Cavett Show with an Anteater, Then Talks About Dreams & Surrealism, the Golden Ratio & More (1970) (1)
- 20: Moral Philosophy on TV? Pretty Much Pop #32 Judges The Good Place (0)
- 19: Use the “Eisenhower Matrix” to Manage Your Time & Increase Your Productivity: The System Designed by the 34th President of the United States (0)
- 19: The City of Nashville Built a Full-Scale Replica of the Parthenon in 1897, and It’s Still Standing Today (1)
- 19: New Digital Archive Will Bring Medieval Chants Back to Life: Project Amra Will Feature 300 Digitized Manuscripts and Many Audio Recordings (1)
- 18: Watch More Than 400 Classic Korean Films Free Online Thanks to the Korean Film Archive (6)
- 18: Bob Marley’s Redemption Song Finally Gets an Official Video: Watch the Animated Video Made Up of 2747 Drawings (9)
- 18: Bertrand Russell’s Prison Letters Are Now Digitized & Put Online (1918 – 1961) (0)
- 17: Scientist Creates a Working Rotary Cellphone (0)
- 17: Watch the Grateful Dead Slip Past Security & Play a Gig at Columbia University’s Anti-Vietnam Protest (1968) (1)
- 17: Explore Ancient Athens 3D, a Digital Reconstruction of the Greek City-State at the Height of Its Influence (9)
- 17: The New York Public Library Creates a List of 125 Books That They Love (11)
- 14: Discover the Artist Who Mentored Edward Hopper & Inspired “Nighthawks” (0)
- 14: America’s First Drag Queen Was Also America’s First LGBTQ Activist and a Former Slave (0)
- 14: Watch This Year’s Oscar-Winning Short The Neighbor’s Window, a Surprising Tale of Urban Voyeurism (0)
- 13: Watch Footage from the Psychology Experiment That Shocked the World: Milgram’s Obedience Study (1961) (2)
- 13: Wes Anderson Releases the Official Trailer for His New Film, The French Dispatch: Watch It Online (0)
- 13: How the Brooklyn Bridge Was Built: The Story of One of the Greatest Engineering Feats in History (0)
- 13: Robin Williams’ Celebrity Struggles: A Discussion with Dave Itzkoff by Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast (ep. 31) (0)
- 12: David Bowie Became Ziggy Stardust 48 Years Ago This Week: Watch Original Footage (0)
- 12: An Archive of Handwritten Traditional Mexican Cookbooks Is Now Online (4)
- 12: The Experimental Abstract Films of Pioneering American Animator Mary Ellen Bute (1930s-1950s) (1)
- 11: Old Book Illustrations: An Online Database Lets You Download Thousands of Illustrations from the 19th & 20th Centuries (0)
- 11: When Miles Davis Discovered and Then Channeled the Musical Spirit of Jimi Hendrix (1)
- 11: The Biodiversity Heritage Library Makes 150,000 High-Res Illustrations of the Natural World Free to Download (0)
- 10: Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece, Featuring 4,000 Illustrations: See Them Online (7)
- 10: Chick Corea (RIP) Offers 16 Pieces of “Cheap But Good Advice for Playing Music in a Group” (1985) (1)
- 10: The Woman Who Invented Rock n’ Roll: An Introduction to Sister Rosetta Tharpe (0)
- 07: Free Coloring Books from World-Class Libraries & Museums: Download & Color Hundreds of Free Images (5)
- 07: Daphne Oram Created the BBC’s First-Ever Piece of Electronic Music (1957) (4)
- 07: Iconic Film from 1896 Restored with Artificial Intelligence: Watch an AI-Upscaled Version of the Lumière Brothers’ The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (1)
- 07: An Artist Tricks Google Maps Into Creating a Virtual Traffic Jam, Using a Little Red Wagon & 99 Smartphones (0)
- 06: The Graphic Novel Adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (0)
- 06: 42 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner, Alien, Star Trek and Doctor Who Will Help You Relax & Sleep (3)
- 06: Why Every Nominated Film Will Win the 2020 Oscar: A Pretty Much Pop Podcast Debate (ep. 30) (0)
- 05: The Most Complete Collection of Salvador Dalí’s Paintings Published in a Beautiful New Book by Taschen: Includes Never-Seen-Before Works (0)
- 05: Terry Jones, the Late Monty Python Actor, Helped Turn Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Into a Free App: Explore It Online (0)
- 05: The Met Puts 650+ Japanese Illustrated Books Online: Marvel at Hokusai’s One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji and More (4)
- 04: Free for Audible Subscribers: James Taylor Releases a New Audio Memoir, and Michael Pollan a New Audio Book on Caffeine (0)
- 04: What is a Blade Runner? How Ridley Scott’s Movie Has Origins in William S. Burroughs’ Novella, Blade Runner: A Movie (2)
- 04: 36,000 Flash Games Have Been Archived and Saved Before Flash Goes Extinct: Play Them Offline (2)
- 04: The Word “Robot” Originated in a Czech Play in 1921: Discover Karel Čapek’s Sci-Fi Play R.U.R. (a.k.a. Rossum’s Universal Robots) (0)
- 04: The Dark Side of the Moon Project: Watch an 8-Part Video Essay on Pink Floyd’s Classic Album (10)
- 03: Deconstructing Bach’s Famous Cello Prelude–the One You’ve Heard in Hundreds of TV Shows & Films (4)
- 03: How Walter Murch Revolutionized the Sound of Modern Cinema: A New Video Essay Explores His Innovations in American Graffiti, The Godfather & More (0)
- 03: Radical Women: Stream the Getty’s Podcast That Features Six Major 20th-Century Artists, All Female (0)
- 03: These Boots Are Made for Walkin’: The Story Behind Nancy Sinatra’s Enduring #1 Hit (1966) (0)
- January 2020 (85)
- 31: Monty Python Pays Tribute to Terry Jones: Watch Their Montage of Jones’ Beloved Characters in Action (0)
- 31: Take an Aerial Tour of Medieval Paris (3)
- 30: Crowd Breaks into Singing Bon Jovi in the Park: The Power of Music in 46 Seconds (2)
- 30: Akira Kurosawa’s List of His 100 Favorite Movies (1)
- 30: Evelyn Waugh’s “Victorian Blood Book”: A Most Strange & Macabre Illustrated Book (0)
- 30: Why the Soviets Doctored Their Most Iconic World War II Victory Photo, “Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag” (17)
- 30: Scorsese’s The Irishman in the Context of his Oeuvre–Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #29 Featuring Colin Marshall (0)
- 29: How the Psychedelic Mellotron Works: An In-Depth Demonstration (0)
- 29: Hear the Voice of a 3,0000-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy: Scientists 3-D Print His Throat & Mouth and Get Him to Speak … a Little (0)
- 29: The e-Book Imagined in 1935 (0)
- 28: Discover the Disappearing Turkish Language That is Whistled, Not Spoken (2)
- 28: The Secret of the “Perfect Montage” at the Heart of Parasite, the Korean Film Now Sweeping World Cinema (0)
- 28: The Visionary Mystical Art of Carl Jung: See Illustrated Pages from The Red Book (3)
- 28: What Is the Coronavirus?: Answers to Common Questions About the Mysterious New Virus Spreading Across China (0)
- 27: Jim Lehrer’s 16 Rules for Practicing Journalism with Integrity (8)
- 27: China’s 8,000 Terracotta Warriors: An Animated & Interactive Introduction to a Great Archaeological Discovery (0)
- 27: Iconic Songs Played by Musicians Around the World: “Stand by Me,” “Redemption Song,” “Ripple” & More (2)
- 27: How Humans Domesticated Cats (Twice) (0)
- 24: Monty Python’s Terry Jones (RIP) Was a Comedian, But Also a Medieval Historian: Get to Know His Other Side (1)
- 24: A Concise Breakdown of How Time Travel Works in Popular Movies, Books & TV Shows (4)
- 24: The Lost Neighborhood Buried Under New York City’s Central Park (1)
- 23: Optical Poems by Oskar Fischinger, the Avant-Garde Animator Despised by Hitler, Dissed by Disney (1)
- 23: The Flute of Shame: Discover the Instrument/Device Used to Publicly Humiliate Bad Musicians During the Medieval Period (5)
- 23: Actor Margaret Colin (VEEP, Independence Day) Joins Pretty Much Pop #28 to Take On the Trope of the Alpha Female (0)
- 22: How the Female Scientist Who Discovered the Greenhouse Gas Effect Was Forgotten by History (1)
- 22: When Salvador Dali Met Sigmund Freud, and Changed Freud’s Mind About Surrealism (1938) (1)
- 22: The First Real Museum of Philosophy Prepares to Launch: See the Museo della Filosofia in Milan (0)
- 21: Introducing The Radiohead Public Library: Radiohead Makes Their Full Catalogue Available via a Free Online Web Site (0)
- 21: Can You Spot Liars Through Their Body Language? A Former FBI Agent Breaks Down the Clues in Non-Verbal Communication (0)
- 21: The Neuroscience of Drumming: Researchers Discover the Secrets of Drumming & The Human Brain (5)
- 21: Drunk History Takes on the Father of Prohibition: The Ban on Alcohol in the U.S. Started 100 Years Ago This Month (0)
- 20: Fellini’s Fantastic TV Commercials for Barilla, Campari & More: The Italian Filmmaker Was Born 100 Years Ago Today (0)
- 20: A Medical Student Creates Intricate Anatomical Embroideries of the Brain, Heart, Lungs & More (0)
- 20: Watch Hunter S. Thompson & Ralph Steadman Head to Hollywood in a Revealing 1978 Documentary (5)
- 20: How to Draw Like an Architect: An Introduction in Six Videos (1)
- 17: Hear Christopher Tolkien (RIP) Read the Work of His Father J.R.R. Tolkien, Which He Tirelessly Worked to Preserve (0)
- 17: The Anti-Conformist, Libertarian Philosophy That Shaped Rush’s Classic Albums (2)
- 17: Cooking with Wool: Watch Mouthwatering Tiny Woolen Food Animations (0)
- 16: The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People, Presented in an Interactive Infographic (3)
- 16: When People Gave Anti-Valentine’s Day Cards: Revisit the “Vinegar Valentines” That Spread Ridicule and Contempt (1)
- 16: How Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring Incited a Riot? An Animated Introduction (0)
- 16: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #27 Discusses the Impact and Aesthetics of Star Wars (0)
- 15: How Sam Mendes’ WWI Film 1917 Was Made to Look Like One Long, Harrowing Shot (2)
- 15: The Amazing Artistry & Ingenuity of the Furniture Enjoyed by 18th Century Aristocrats (1)
- 15: How a Philip Glass Opera Gets Made: An Inside Look (0)
- 15: Celebrating Women Composers: A New BBC Digital Archive Takes You from Hildegard of Bingen (1098) to Nadia Boulanger (1979) (1)
- 14: The New York Public Library Announces the Top 10 Checked-Out Books of All Time (0)
- 14: Art Record Covers: A Book of Over 500 Album Covers Created by Famous Visual Artists (0)
- 14: What the Earth Would Look Like If We Drained the Water from the Oceans (4)
- 14: Leonardo da Vinci’s Inventions Come to Life as Museum-Quality, Workable Models: A Swing Bridge, Scythed Chariot, Perpetual Motion Machine & More (3)
- 13: Witness Rush Drummer Neil Peart’s (RIP) Finest Moments On Stage and Screen (0)
- 13: Discover the Apprehension Engine: Brian Eno Called It “the Most Terrifying Musical Instrument of All Time” (4)
- 13: Artist Ed Ruscha Reads From Jack Kerouac’s On the Road in a Short Film Celebrating His 1966 Photos of the Sunset Strip (0)
- 13: The First & Last Time Mister Rogers Sang “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” (1968-2001) (0)
- 10: 14 Paris Museums Put 300,000 Works of Art Online: Download Classics by Monet, Cézanne & More (6)
- 10: “Mr. Tambourine Man” & Other Bob Dylan Classics, Sung Beautifully by Kids (2)
- 10: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (1)
- 09: How Dick Cavett Brought Sophistication to Late Night Talk Shows: Watch 270 Classic Interviews Online (1)
- 09: The Magic of Chess: Kids Share Their Uninhibited, Philosophical Insights about the Benefits of Chess (1)
- 09: Vincent Van Gogh’s Favorite Books (0)
- 09: The Art & Philosophy of Bonsai (2)
- 09: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #26 Discusses Alan Moore’s Watchmen Comic and the HBO Show with Cornell Psychology Professor David Pizarro (2)
- 08: A Map of the Disney Entertainment Empire Reveals the Deep Connections Between Its Movies, Its Merchandise, Disneyland & More (1967) (0)
- 08: Free Online Writing & Journalism Courses (3)
- 08: The Strange, Spiritual Origins of the Ouija Board (0)
- 08: An Animated Look at the Charade of the Global Elites: Claiming They Want to “Change the World,” They End Up Preserving the Unjust Status Quo (1)
- 07: Pink Floyd Films a Concert in an Empty Auditorium, Still Trying to Break Into the U.S. Charts (1970) (1)
- 07: John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for His Masterpiece A Love Supreme (4)
- 07: Watch Peluca, the Student Film That Became the Cultural Phenomenon Napoleon Dynamite (2002) (0)
- 06: A Brief History of John Baldessari (RIP) Narrated by Tom Waits: A Tribute to the Late “Godfather of Conceptual Art” (1)
- 06: Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save Available as a Free AudioBook and eBook: Features Narrations by Paul Simon, Kristen Bell & Stephen Fry (1)
- 06: A Brief Animated History of Alcohol (1)
- 06: The Vatican Library Goes Online and Digitizes Tens of Thousands of Manuscripts, Books, Coins, and More (6)
- 03: The Names of 1.8 Million Emancipated Slaves Are Now Searchable in the World’s Largest Genealogical Database, Helping African Americans Find Lost Ancestors (41)
- 03: 38 Major Pop Songs Played with the Exact Same Four Chords: Watch a Captivating Medley Performed by the Axis of Awesome (4)
- 03: How Anna Karina (RIP) Became the Mesmerizing Face of the French New Wave (0)
- 03: Love the Art, Hate the Artist: How to Approach the Art of Disgraced Artists (11)
- 02: Watch A-ha’s “Take On Me” Video Newly Remastered in 4K …. and Learn About the Band’s Struggle to Make the Classic Song (1)
- 02: How Cartoons Saved R. Crumb’s Life, and How R. Crumb Turned Cartoons into an Art Form (NSFW) (1)
- 02: The Music, Books & Films Liberated into the Public Domain in 2020: Rhapsody in Blue, The Magic Mountain, Sherlock, Jr., and More (1)
- 02: When Robin Williams & Steve Martin Starred in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot (1988) (2)
- 02: Sportscaster Dave Revsine (Big 10 Network) Joins Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast to Discuss the Role of Sports in Pop Culture (0)
- 01: Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running (0)
- 01: RIP Syd Mead: Revisit the Life and & Art of the Designer Behind Blade Runner, Alien & More (1)
- 01: The Voynich Manuscript: A New Documentary Takes a Deep Dive Into the Mysteries of the Bizarre Manuscript (9)
- December 2019 (83)
- 31: The History of the Fisheye Photo Album Cover (1)
- 31: A Recently-Discovered 44,000-Year-Old Cave Painting Tells the Oldest Known Story (0)
- 31: Steve Martin Performs Stand-Up Comedy for Dogs (1973) (2)
- 30: John Coltrane Talks About the Sacred Meaning of Music in the Human Experience: Listen to One of His Final Interviews (1966) (7)
- 30: Why You Should Read Dune: An Animated Introduction to Frank Herbert’s Ecological, Psychological Sci-Fi Epic (3)
- 30: A Visual Introduction to Kintsugi, the Japanese Art of Repairing Broken Pottery and Finding Beauty in Imperfection (4)
- 30: Itzhak Perlman Appears on Sesame Street and Poignantly Shows Kids How to Play the Violin and Push Through Life’s Limits (1981) (0)
- 27: Illustrations from the Soviet Children’s Book Your Name? Robot, Created by Tarkovsky Art Director Mikhail Romadin (1979) (0)
- 27: An Animated Introduction to Cynicism, the Anti Conformist Philosophy That Originated in Ancient Greece (1)
- 27: Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors (9)
- 27: Download Beautiful Free Posters Celebrating the Achievements of Living Female STEM Leaders (1)
- 26: Watch Annie Leibovitz Photograph and Get Scolded by Queen Elizabeth: “What Do You Think This Is?” (1)
- 26: Hear Every Sample on the Beastie Boys’ Acclaimed Album, Paul’s Boutique–and Discover Where They Came From (1)
- 25: A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933) (1)
- 25: Hear Neil Gaiman Read A Christmas Carol Just as Dickens Read It (3)
- 25: Bob Ross’ Christmas Special: Celebrate, Relax, Nod Off (0)
- 25: When Salvador Dalí Created Christmas Cards That Were Too Avant Garde for Hallmark (1960) (4)
- 25: Revisiting Band Aid’s Cringe-Inducing 1984 Single, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” (28)
- 24: Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs (0)
- 24: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal for the Holidays (0)
- 24: Ram Dass (RIP) Offers Wisdom on Confronting Aging and Dying (0)
- 24: Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, the Most Troubling Christmas Film Ever Made (0)
- 24: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #24 Considers Holiday Viewing: What’s Canon? (1)
- 23: Richard Feynman’s “Lost Lecture:” An Animated Retelling (1)
- 23: A Beautiful New Book of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Visual History of 200 Japanese Masterpieces Created Between 1680 and 1938 (0)
- 23: Hear the Trippy Mystical Sounds of Giant Gongs (0)
- 21: Radiohead Puts Every Official Album on YouTube, Making Them All Free to Stream (5)
- 20: 20+ Knitters and Crochet Artists Stitch an Astonishing 3-D Recreation of Picasso’s Guernica (1)
- 20: Neil deGrasse Tyson Teaches Scientific Thinking and Communication in a New Online Course (0)
- 20: Malcolm Gladwell Rebuts the Terrible Advice Given to Students: Don’t Go to “the Best College You Can,” Go to Where You Can Have “Deeply Interesting Conversations with People” at Night (1)
- 19: The Zen of Bill Murray: I Want to Be “Really Here, Really in It, Really Alive in the Moment” (0)
- 19: The Phenomena of Physics Illustrated with Psychedelic Art in an Influential 19th-Century Textbook (0)
- 19: Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill Podcast: Stream a Gripping ‘Audio Companion’ to His Bestselling Book (1)
- 18: An Introduction to Surrealism: The Big Aesthetic Ideas Presented in Three Videos (0)
- 18: Why the University of Chicago Rejected Kurt Vonnegut’s Master’s Thesis (and How a Novel Got Him His Degree 27 Years Later) (4)
- 18: How Yoga Changes the Brain and May Guard Against Alzheimer’s and Dementia (0)
- 18: The Singer or the Song? Ken Stringfellow (Posies, R.E.M., Big Star) and Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #23 Discuss (0)
- 17: “The Philosophy of “Flow”: A Brief Introduction to Taoism (2)
- 17: Discover the Stendhal Syndrome: The Condition Where People Faint, or Feel Totally Overwhelmed, in the Presence of Great Art (1)
- 17: Seven Videos Explain How Edward Hopper’s Paintings Expressed American Loneliness and Alienation (1)
- 16: Jimi Hendrix Hosts a Jam Session Where Jim Morrison Sings Drunkenly; Jimi Records the Moment for Posterity (1968) (3)
- 16: How Andrew Wyeth Made a Painting: A Journey Into His Best-Known Work Christina’s World (0)
- 16: The Prado Museum Digitally Alters Four Masterpieces to Strikingly Illustrate the Impact of Climate Change (2)
- 16: Blues Musician Plays a Soul-Stirring Version of “Amazing Grace” at His Mother’s Funeral (48)
- 15: Neil Gaiman Talks Dreamily About Fountain Pens, Notebooks & His Writing Process in His Long Interview with Tim Ferriss (2)
- 13: Meet the Americans Who Speak with Elizabethan English Accents: An Introduction to the “Hoi Toiders” from Ocracoke, North Carolina (1)
- 13: Traditional Inuit Thoat Singing and the Modern World Collide in This Astonishing Video (2)
- 13: “Don’t Try”: The Philosophy of the Hardworking Charles Bukowski (1)
- 12: Steve Martin on How to Look at Abstract Art (2)
- 12: Why Should We Read William Shakespeare? Four Animated Videos Make the Case (4)
- 12: Bill Gates Recommends Books for the Holidays (1)
- 12: Malcolm Gladwell Admits His Insatiable Love for Thriller Novels and Recommends His Favorites (1)
- 11: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal (0)
- 11: David Lynch Turns Twin Peaks into a Virtual Reality Game: Watch the Official Trailer (1)
- 11: Meditation for Artists: Learn Moebius’ Meditative Technique Called “Automatic Drawing” (2)
- 11: Author Imagines in 1893 the Fashions That Would Appear Over the Next 100 Years (0)
- 11: Pretty Much Pop #22 Untangles Time-Travel Scenarios in the Terminator Franchise and Other Media (0)
- 10: Plants Emit High-Pitched Sounds When They Get Cut, or Stressed by Drought, a New Study Shows (9)
- 10: 82 Vintage Cookbooks, Free to Download, Offer a Fascinating Illustrated Look at Culinary and Cultural History (18)
- 10: How Martin Scorsese Directs a Movie: The Techniques Behind Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and More (0)
- 09: Watch an Incredible Performance of “Take Five” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet (1964) (2)
- 09: How to Improve Your Memory: Four TED Talks Explain the Techniques to Remember Anything (2)
- 09: Revisit the Infamous Rolling Stones Free Festival at Altamont: The Ill-Fated Concert Took Place 50 Years Ago (0)
- 09: The Trick That Made Animation Realistic: Watch a Short History of Rotoscoping (0)
- 07: How a Bach Canon Works. Brilliant. (4)
- 06: Radical Tea Towels Offer a Graphic Crash Course in Progressive American History (0)
- 06: Music Is Truly a Universal Language: New Research Shows That Music Worldwide Has Important Commonalities (1)
- 06: David Sedaris Teaches Storytelling & Humor His New Masterclass (1)
- 05: The Long Game of Creativity: If You Haven’t Created a Masterpiece at 30, You’re Not a Failure (1)
- 05: What the Great Pyramid of Giza Would’ve Looked Like When First Built: It Was Gleaming, Reflective White (14)
- 05: For the First Time, Studio Ghibli’s Entire Catalog Will Soon Be Available for Digital Purchase (0)
- 04: Kabuki Star Wars: Watch The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi Reinterpreted by Japan’s Most Famous Kabuki Actor (0)
- 04: Interactive Periodic Table of Elements Shows How the Elements Get Used in Making Everyday Things (0)
- 04: A New Digitized Menu Collection Lets You Revisit the Cuisine from the “Golden Age of Railroad Dining” (0)
- 04: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #21 Considers Role-Playing Video Games (1)
- 03: Punk Dulcimer: The Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” Played on the Dulcimer (1)
- 03: 160,000 Pages of Glorious Medieval Manuscripts Digitized: Visit the Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis (0)
- 03: How Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Helps Us Understand the Meaning of Life (0)
- 03: Clive James & Jonathan Miller (Both RIP) Talk Together About How the Brain Works (0)
- 02: Watch a Hand-Drawn Animation of Neil Gaiman’s Poem “The Mushroom Hunters,” Narrated by Amanda Palmer (1)
- 02: You Can Sleep in an Edward Hopper Painting at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Is This the Next New Museum Trend? (1)
- 02: Twin Peaks Actually Explained: A Four-Hour Video Essay Demystifies It All (4)
- 01: Masterclass Is Running a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal: It Gives You and a Family Member/Friend Access to Their Complete Course Catalog (0)
- November 2019 (78)
- 29: A New Online Archive Lets You Listen to 40 Years Worth of Terry Gross’ Fresh Air Interviews: Stream 22,000 Segment Online (5)
- 29: Depeche Mode Before They Were Actually Depeche Mode: Stream Their Early Demo Recordings from 1980 (5)
- 29: The Dream-Driven Filmmaking of Werner Herzog: Watch the Video Essay, “The Inner Chronicle of What We Are: Understanding Werner Herzog” (1)
- 28: The Great Courses (Formerly The Teaching Company) Offers Every Course at $60 or Less Until the End of Black Friday (1)
- 28: The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic (3)
- 28: An Illustrated Map of Every Known Object in Space: Asteroids, Dwarf Planets, Black Holes & Much More (1)
- 28: William S. Burroughs Reads His “Thanksgiving Prayer” in a 1988 Film By Gus Van Sant (2)
- 28: The Isamu Noguchi Museum Puts Online an Archive of 60,000 Photographs, Manuscripts & Digitized Drawings by the Japanese Sculptor (0)
- 27: Watch the Hot Guitar Solos of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, “America’s First Gospel Rock Star” (0)
- 27: Watch Life-Affirming Performances from David Byrne’s New Broadway Musical American Utopia (0)
- 27: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912): The Truly Weird Origin of Modern Stop-Motion Animation (0)
- 26: Hannah Arendt Explains Why Democracies Need to Safeguard the Free Press & Truth … to Defend Themselves Against Dictators and Their Lies (2)
- 26: Prisons Around the U.S. Are Banning and Restricting Access to Books (1)
- 26: Doris Kearns Goodwin Teaches U.S. Presidential History & Leadership (1)
- 26: Watch 21 Animated Ideas from Big Thinkers: Steven Pinker, Carol Dweck, Philip Zimbardo, David Harvey & More (0)
- 25: London Calling: A New Museum Exhibition Celebrates The Clash’s Iconic Album (0)
- 25: What Is Higher Consciousness?: How We Can Transcend Our Petty, Day-to-Day Desires and Gain a Deeper Wisdom (1)
- 25: Neuroscience & Jazz Improvisation: How Improvisation Shapes Creativity and What Happens Inside Our Brain (1)
- 25: How to Behave in a British Pub: A World War II Training Film from 1943, Featuring Burgess Meredith (2)
- 22: Sacha Baron Cohen Links the Decline of Democracy to the Rise of Social Media, “the Greatest Propaganda Machine in History” (10)
- 22: Neurosymphony: A High-Resolution Look into the Brain, Set to the Music of Brain Waves (0)
- 22: Lynda Barry’s New Book Offers a Master Class in Making Comics (0)
- 22: How Blade Runner Captured the Imagination of a Generation of Electronic Musicians (0)
- 21: Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox Explained in Animation (0)
- 21: Dramatic Color Footage Shows a Bombed-Out Berlin a Month After Germany’s WWII Defeat (1945) (14)
- 21: Watch 9 Classic & Lost Punk Films (1976-1981): All Restored and Now Streaming Online (0)
- 20: Every Nuclear Bomb Explosion in History, Animated (0)
- 20: The 1926 Silent Film The Flying Ace Tells the Alternative Universe Story of a Black Fighter Pilot, Many Years Before African-Americans Were Allowed to Serve as Pilots in the US Army (0)
- 20: 10 Paintings by Edward Hopper, the Most Cinematic American Painter of All, Turned into Animated GIFs (0)
- 20: Alice B. Toklas Reads Her Famous Recipe for Hashish Fudge (1963) (2)
- 20: Improv Comedy (Live and Otherwise) Examined on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #20 (0)
- 19: Nikola Tesla Accurately Predicted the Rise of the Internet & Smart Phone in 1926 (0)
- 19: Quentin Tarantino’s World War II Reading List (0)
- 19: Watch Klaus Nomi Debut His New Wave Vaudeville Show: The Birth of the Opera-Singing Space Alien (1978) (0)
- 19: 82 Animated Interviews with Living, Dead, Celebrated & Sometimes Disgraced Celebrities (1)
- 18: Download Stunning 3D Scans of the Bust of Nefertiti, Now Released by Berlin’s Neues Museum (1)
- 18: David Lynch Visualizes How Transcendental Meditation Works with Sharpie & Big Pad of Paper (2)
- 18: How Art Nouveau Inspired the Psychedelic Designs of the 1960s (1)
- 18: What Ancient Chinese Sounded Like — and How We Know It: An Animated Introduction (2)
- 15: Salvador Dalí’s Iconic Deck of Tarot Cards Get Re-Issued: It’s Out Today (0)
- 15: The Seven Road-Tested Habits of Effective Artists (0)
- 15: Download Hellvetica, a Font that Makes the Elegant Spacing of Helvetica Look as Ugly as Possible (0)
- 14: How Humans Migrated Across The Globe Over 200,000 Years: An Animated Look (10)
- 14: Watch L’Inferno (1911), Italy’s First Feature Film and Perhaps the Best Adaptation of Dante’s Classic (0)
- 14: The Velvet Underground as Peanuts Characters: Snoopy Morphs Into Lou Reed, Charlie Brown Into Andy Warhol (1)
- 14: The First High-Resolution Map of America’s Food Supply Chain: How It All Really Gets from Farm to Table (3)
- 14: Pretty Much Pop #19 Discusses Race and the Target Audience w/ Rodney Ramsey (0)
- 13: John Cleese’s Eulogy for Monty Python’s Graham Chapman: ‘Good Riddance, the Free-Loading Bastard, I Hope He Fries’ (0)
- 13: A Brief History of Chess: An Animated Introduction to the 1,500-Year-Old Game (2)
- 13: Watch the Serpentine Dance, Created by the Pioneering Dancer Loie Fuller, Performed in an 1897 Film by the Lumière Brothers (0)
- 13: The Virtual Choir: Watch a Choir Conductor Digitally Unite 3500 Singers from Around the World (5)
- 12: Watch the Buddhism-Inspired Video for Leonard Cohen’s Newly-Released Song, “Happens to the Heart” (1)
- 12: A Schoolhouse Rock-Inspired Guide to Impeachment (0)
- 12: Watch Nirvana Go Through Rehearsals for Their Famous MTV Unplugged Sessions: “Polly,” “The Man Who Sold the World” & More (1993) (0)
- 12: An MRI Shows How a Singer Sings Two Tones at Once (With the Music of Mozart and Brian Eno) (0)
- 11: The Internet Archive Is Digitizing & Preserving Over 100,000 Vinyl Records: Hear 750 Full Albums Now (6)
- 11: Why David Sedaris Hates America’s Favorite Word, “Awesome” (11)
- 11: An Animated Leonard Cohen Offers Reflections on Death: Thought-Provoking Excerpts from His Final Interview (8)
- 11: Lou Reed’s Mixtape for Andy Warhol Discovered by Cornell University Professor: Features 12 Previously Unreleased Songs (1)
- 08: A Map of How the Word “Tea” Spread Across the World (6)
- 08: What to Wear to a Successful PhD Thesis Defense? A Skirt’s Worth of Academic Rejection Letters (0)
- 07: The Benefits of Boredom: How to Stop Distracting Yourself and Get Creative Ideas Again (0)
- 07: The Digital Dada Library: Discover the Archive That Preserves the Original Publications of the Experimental Anti-Art Movement Online (1)
- 07: When White Supremacists Overthrew a Government (1898): The Hidden History of an American Coup (1)
- 06: Martin Scorsese Explains the Difference Between Cinema and Movies (2)
- 06: Comic Sans Turns 25: Graphic Designer Vincent Connare Explains Why He Created the Most Hated Font in the World (1)
- 06: The Difference Between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England: A (Pre-Brexit) Video Explains (3)
- 06: Behold Félix Nadar’s Pioneering Photographs of the Paris Catacombs (1861) (0)
- 06: Pretty Much Pop #18 Discusses Stephen King’s Media Empire (0)
- 05: Watch J.S. Bach’s “Air on the G String” Played on the Actual Instruments from His Time (7)
- 05: Women Scientists Launch a Database Featuring the Work of 9,000 Women Working in the Sciences (2)
- 05: The Very First Picture of the Far Side of the Moon, Taken 60 Years Ago (0)
- 04: The Time When Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Contest & Came in 20th Place (0)
- 04: Oscar-Nominated Composer Danny Elfman Teaches an Online Course on Writing Music for Film: A Look Inside His Creative Process (0)
- 04: Art Class Instead Of Jail: New Program Lets Young Offenders Take Free Art Classes Rather Than Spend Time in the Criminal System (3)
- 01: How to Find Silence in a Noisy World (2)
- 01: The Entire History of the British Isles Animated: 42,000 BCE to Today (2)
- 01: Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Novel Adaptation (0)
- October 2019 (80)
- 31: What Happens to the Clothes We Throw Away?: Watch Unravel, a Short Documentary on the Journey Our Waste Takes (1)
- 31: Bowie’s Bookshelf: A New Essay Collection on The 100 Books That Changed David Bowie’s Life (0)
- 31: An Animated Introduction to Medieval Taverns: Learn the History of These Rough-and-Tumble Ancestors of the Modern Pub (0)
- 30: The Entire Archive of Contact: A Journal for Contemporary Music Has Been Digitized and Put Online (0)
- 30: Watch the Opening of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey with the Original, Unused Score (6)
- 30: What Guitars Were Like 400 Years Ago: An Introduction to the 9 String Baroque Guitar (0)
- 30: Are Stand-Up Comedians Our Modern Day Philosophers? Pretty Much Pop #17 Considers (0)
- 29: Frank Zappa’s Surreal Movie 200 Motels: The First Feature Film Ever Shot on Videotape (1971) (0)
- 29: How Monument Valley Became the Most Iconic Landscape of the American West (1)
- 29: Peruvian Scholar Writes & Defends the First Thesis Written in Quechua, the Main Language of the Incan Empire (0)
- 29: The Beauty of Degraded Art: Why We Like Scratchy Vinyl, Grainy Film, Wobbly VHS & Other Analog-Media Imperfection (1)
- 28: The Paintings of Miles Davis: Discover Visual Art Inspired by Kandinsky, Basquiat, Picasso, and Joni Mitchell (3)
- 28: A Collection of Vintage Fruit Crate Labels Offers a Voluptuous Vision of the Sunshine State (0)
- 28: Explore 1400 Paintings & Drawings by Vincent van Gogh–and Much More–at the Van Gogh Museum’s Online Collection (0)
- 28: Watch 700 Videos Nostalgia-Inducing Videos from the Early Days of MTV (0)
- 26: Salvador Dalí’s Tarot Cards Get Re-Issued: The Occult Meets Surrealism in a Classic Tarot Card Deck (2)
- 26: Joni Mitchell Publishes a Book of Her Rarely Seen Paintings & Poetry (5)
- 25: Beautiful New Photo Book Documents Patti Smith’s Breakthrough Years in Music: Features Hundreds of Unseen Photographs (3)
- 25: A 108-Year-Old Woman Recalls What It Was Like to Be a Woman in Victorian England (2)
- 25: A Flowchart of Philosophical Novels: Reading Recommendations from Haruki Murakami to Don DeLillo (13)
- 25: Pretty Much Pop #16 Considers the Sitcom “Friends” 25 Years Later (0)
- 24: Discover the Persian 11th Century Canon of Medicine, “The Most Famous Medical Textbook Ever Written” (0)
- 24: The Provocative Art of Modern Sketch, the Magazine That Captured the Cultural Explosion of 1930s Shanghai (0)
- 24: Werner Herzog Offers 24 Pieces of Filmmaking and Life Advice (1)
- 24: F. Scott Fitzgerald Creates a List of 22 Essential Books (1936) (0)
- 23: Behold the New York City Street Tree Map: An Interactive Map That Catalogues the 700,000 Trees Shading the Streets of New York City (2)
- 23: The Night When John Coltrane Soloed in a Bathroom and David Crosby, High as a Kite, Nearly Lost His Mind (0)
- 23: Is Opera Part of Pop Culture? Pretty Much Pop #15 with Sean Spyres (1)
- 22: Found: A Long Lost Chapter from the World’s Oldest Novel, the 11th-Century Japanese Classic, The Tale of Genji (0)
- 22: The First Faked Photograph (1840) (1)
- 22: The Story of Ziggy Stardust Gets Chronicled in a New Graphic Novel, Featuring a Foreword by Neil Gaiman (5)
- 21: Meet Viola Smith, the World’s Oldest Drummer: Her Career Started in the 1930s, and She Played Until She Was 107 (0)
- 21: The Best of the Edward Gorey Envelope Art Contest (1)
- 21: Martin Luther King Jr. Explains the Importance of Jazz: Hear the Speech He Gave at the First Berlin Jazz Festival (1964) (6)
- 21: The Internet Archive Makes 2,500 More Classic MS-DOS Video Games Free to Play Online: Alone in the Dark, Doom, Microsoft Adventure, and Others (0)
- 18: Banksy Launches a New Online Store: Make Purchases Through October 28 (2)
- 18: Watch Teenage Kurt Cobain and Friends’ Horror Movie from 1984 (0)
- 18: Chill Out to 70 Hours of Oceanscape Nature Videos Filmed by BBC Earth (2)
- 17: How to Paint Like Willem De Kooning: Watch Visual Primers from the Museum of Modern Art (1)
- 17: The Politics & Philosophy of the Bauhaus Design Movement: A Short Introduction (0)
- 16: Stream Dozens of Classic & Contemporary Horror Movies Free Online in October (1)
- 16: How Magazine Pages Were Created Before Computers: A Veteran of the London Review of Books Demonstrates the Meticulous, Manual Process (6)
- 16: Watch a Newly-Created “Epilogue” For Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (7)
- 15: Fight Club Came Out 20 Years Ago Today: Watch Five Video Essays on the Film’s Philosophy and Lasting Influence (1)
- 15: Watching Nature Documentaries Can Produce “Real Happiness,” Finds a Study from the BBC and UC-Berkeley (0)
- 15: MIT Researchers 3D Print a Bridge Imagined by Leonardo da Vinci in 1502— and Prove That It Actually Works (1)
- 15: Yo-Yo Ma Performs the First Classical Piece He Ever Learned: Take a 12-Minute Mental Health Break and Watch His Moving “Tiny Desk” Concert (0)
- 14: Why Should We Read Dante’s Divine Comedy? An Animated Video Makes the Case (1)
- 14: Treasures in the Trash: A Secret Museum Inside a New York City Department of Sanitation Garage (0)
- 14: William Burroughs Meets Francis Bacon: See Never-Broadcast Footage (1982) (0)
- 14: H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds Becomes a New BBC Miniseries Set in Edwardian England (3)
- 11: How Grace Slick Wrote “White Rabbit”: The 1960s Classic Inspired by LSD, Lewis Carroll, Miles Davis’ Sketches of Spain, and Hypocritical Parents (3)
- 11: Download 435 High Resolution Images from John J. Audubon’s The Birds of America (4)
- 10: Free: Download the Sublime Sights & Sounds of Yellowstone National Park (0)
- 10: David Gilmour Makes His Live at Pompeii Concert Film Free to Watch Online (2)
- 10: The Women of Rock: Discover an Oral History Project That Features Pioneering Women in Rock Music (0)
- 10: Where Did Human Beings Come From? 7 Million Years of Human Evolution Visualized in Six Minutes (4)
- 09: The Simulation Theory Explained In Three Animated Videos (0)
- 09: Watch 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki Free Online: A Four Part-Part Documentary on the Unstoppable Japanese Animator (1)
- 09: Download Full Issues of MAVO, the Japanese Avant-Garde Magazine That Announced a New Modernist Movement (1923-1925) (1)
- 09: The Appeal of UFO Narratives: Investigative Journalist Paul Beban Visits Pretty Much Pop #14 (2)
- 08: Hear a Radio Opera Narrated by Kurt Vonnegut, Based on His Adaptation of Igor Stravinsky’s 1918 L’Histoire du Soldat (0)
- 08: Talking Heads Songs Become Midcentury Pulp Novels, Magazines & Advertisements: “Burning Down the House,” “Once in a Lifetime,” and More (1)
- 08: 26-Year-Old Steve Jobs Debates the Utopian & Dystopian Promise of the Computer (1981) (1)
- 07: Lost Depeche Mode Documentary Is Now Online: Watch Our Hobby is Depeche Mode (4)
- 07: Hear a Full-Cast Reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, the Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale (0)
- 07: See Why Ginger Baker (RIP) Was One of the Greatest Drummers in Rock & World Music (2)
- 07: Do Octopi Dream? An Astonishing Nature Documentary Suggests They Do (0)
- 04: Watch Animated Scores of Beethoven’s 16 String Quartets: An Early Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of His Birth (1)
- 04: Patti Smith Sings “People Have the Power” with a Choir of 250 Fellow Singers (3)
- 04: When Ted Turner Tried to Colorize Citizen Kane: See the Only Surviving Scene from the Great Act of Cinematic Sacrilege (2)
- 03: The Morals That Determine Whether We’re Liberal, Conservative, or Libertarian (1)
- 03: Novelist Cormac McCarthy Gives Writing Advice to Scientists … and Anyone Who Wants to Write Clear, Compelling Prose (1)
- 03: Is It Really Ever a Good Idea to Revive an Old TV Show? Pretty Much Pop #13 Considers (0)
- 02: Metropolis Remixed: Fritz Lang’s German Expressionist Sci-Fi Classic Gets Fully Colorized and Dubbed (9)
- 02: The First Music Streaming Service Was Invented in 1881: Discover the Théâtrophone (0)
- 02: 19th-Century Skeleton Alarm Clock Reminded People Daily of the Shortness of Life: An Introduction to the Memento Mori (1)
- 01: Watch Queen Rehearse & Meticulously Prepare for Their Legendary 1985 Live Aid Performance (3)
- 01: A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete Digital Scan (3)
- 01: Quentin Tarantino Explains How to Write & Direct Movies (0)
- September 2019 (74)
- 30: The Japanese Fairy Tale Series: The Illustrated Books That Introduced Western Readers to Japanese Tales (1885-1922) (2)
- 30: Robert Johnson Finally Gets an Obituary in The New York Times 81 Years After His Death (3)
- 30: Watch Composer Wendy Carlos Demo an Original Moog Synthesizer (1989) (3)
- 27: The Beatles Release the First Ever Video for “Here Comes the Sun” (0)
- 27: Free: A Professionally-Read Version of the Ukraine Whistleblower Complaint, Released by Penguin Random House Audio (20)
- 27: What’s the Key to American Gothic’s Enduring Fame? An Introduction to the Iconic American Painting (1)
- 27: Libraries & Archivists Are Digitizing 480,000 Books Published in 20th Century That Are Secretly in the Public Domain (0)
- 26: A New Kurt Vonnegut Museum Opens in Indianapolis … Right in Time for Banned Books Week (0)
- 26: Human All Too Human: A Roman Woman Visits the Great Pyramid in 120 AD, and Carves a Poem in Memory of Her Deceased Brother (0)
- 26: 20 Years Before John Cage’s 4’33”, a Man Named Hy Cage Created a Cartoon about a Silent Piano Composition (1932) (0)
- 25: The Proper Way to Eat Ramen: A Meditation from the Classic Japanese Comedy Tampopo (1985) (0)
- 25: Watch 15 Films by Designers Charles & Ray Eames (0)
- 25: Watch Robert Hunter (RIP), Grateful Dead Lyricist, Perform His Legendary Songs “Bertha,” “Sugaree,” “Box of Rain,” “Friend of the Devil” & More (0)
- 25: Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood Examined on Pretty Much Pop #12 (0)
- 24: An Animated Michael Sandel Explains How Meritocracy Degrades Our Democracy (4)
- 24: “Thou Shalt Not”: A 1940 Photo Satirically Mocks Every Vice & Sin Censored by the Hays Movie Censorship Code (1)
- 24: A Brief History of the Great American Road Trip (1)
- 23: The Sex Pistols Riotous 1978 Tour Through the U.S. South: Watch/Hear Concerts in Dallas, Memphis, Tulsa & More (3)
- 23: How Bicycles Can Revolutionize Our Lives: Case Studies from the United States, Netherlands, China & Britain (0)
- 23: Make an Adorable Crocheted Freddie Mercury; Download a Free Crochet Pattern Online (0)
- 23: Wes Anderson Explains How He Writes and Directs Movies, and What Goes Into His Distinctive Filmmaking Style (0)
- 23: The Coddling of the American Mind: Malcolm Gladwell Leads a Conversation with Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff & Lenore Skenazy (1)
- 20: Nine Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971 (16)
- 20: Why Time Seems to Fly By As You Get Older, and How to Slow It Down: A Scientific Explanation by Neuroscientist David Eagleman (3)
- 20: Watch 16 Hours of Historic Live Aid Performances: Queen, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young & Much More (0)
- 19: Musicians Around the World Play The Band’s Classic Song, “The Weight,” with Help from Robbie Robertson and Ringo Starr (2)
- 19: Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour Teaches a Course on Creativity & Leadership (2)
- 19: Martin Scorsese Makes a List of 85 Films Every Aspiring Filmmaker Needs to See (3)
- 19: The Creepy 13th-Century Melody That Shows Up in Movies Again & Again: An Introduction to “Dies Irae” (9)
- 18: What Did People Eat in Medieval Times? A Video Series and New Cookbook Explain (4)
- 18: Jimi Hendrix Wreaks Havoc on the Lulu Show, Gets Banned From the BBC (1969) (4)
- 18: Visit the Homes That Great Architects Designed for Themselves: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius & Frank Gehry (2)
- 18: Is the Live Music Experience Irreplaceable? Pretty Much Pop #11 (0)
- 17: Ric Ocasek and The Cars Perform Live in Concert After Their Groundbreaking Debut Album: Watch the Complete Show (January 13, 1979) (0)
- 17: Learn the Number One Rule of Funk: Bootsy Collins Explains the Importance of “Keeping It on the One” (3)
- 17: Art Trips: Visit the Art of Cities Around the World, from Los Angeles & London, to Venice and New York (0)
- 16: 25 John Lennon Fans Sing His Album, Working Class Hero, Word for Word, and Note for Note (1)
- 16: How Sergio Leone Made Music an Actor in His Spaghetti Westerns, Creating a Perfect Harmony of Sound & Image (1)
- 16: John Milton’s Hand Annotated Copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio: A New Discovery by a Cambridge Scholar (6)
- 16: Imagined Medieval Comics Illuminate the Absurdities of Modern Life (1)
- 13: Bob Moog Demonstrates His Revolutionary Moog Model D Synthesizer (1)
- 13: Watch Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Taking Batting Practice in Strikingly Restored Footage (1931) (4)
- 13: Discover the Jacobean Traveling Library: The 17th Century Precursor to the Kindle (1)
- 13: How Eric Clapton Created the Classic Song “Layla” (6)
- 12: How E.E. Cummings Writes a Poem (0)
- 12: Charles Bukowski Explains What Good Writing and the Good Life Have in Common (0)
- 12: Expressionist Dance Costumes from the 1920s, and the Tragic Story of Lavinia Schulz & Walter Holdt (1)
- 11: American Cities Then & Now: See How New York, Los Angeles & Detroit Look Today, Compared to the 1930s and 1940s (1)
- 11: Animated Series Drawn & Recorded Tells “Untold Stories” from Music History: Nirvana, Leonard Cohen, Blind Willie Johnson & More (1)
- 11: Pretty Much Pop #10 Examines Margaret Atwood’s Nightmare Vision: The Handmaid’s Tale (1)
- 10: What Would Michel Foucault Think of Social Media, Fake News & Our Post Truth World? (0)
- 10: Watch an Archaeologist Play the “Lithophone,” a Prehistoric Instrument That Let Ancient Musicians Play Real Classic Rock (1)
- 10: Sun Ra Applies to NASA’s Art Program: When the Inventor of Space Jazz Applied to Make Space Art (0)
- 09: Monty Python’s Eric Idle Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters (2)
- 09: Watch a Short 1967 Film That Imagines How We’d Live in 1999: Online Learning, Electronic Shopping, Flat Screen TVs & Much More (1)
- 09: The Secret Student Group Who Took on the Nazis: An Introduction to “The White Rose” (0)
- 09: 30 Fans Joyously Sing the Entirety of Bob Marley’s Legend Album in Unison (3)
- 06: Medieval Monks Complained About Constant Distractions: Learn How They Worked to Overcome Them (1)
- 06: Orson Welles Trashes Famous Directors: Alfred Hitchcock (“Egotism and Laziness”), Woody Allen (“His Arrogance Is Unlimited”) & More (15)
- 06: Bob Odenkirk & Errol Morris Create Comedic Shorts to Help You Take Action Against Global Warming: Watch Them Online (0)
- 05: Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: “They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful, and Nobody’s Ever Mentioned Them” (4)
- 05: Why Learn Latin?: 5 Videos Make a Compelling Case That the “Dead Language” Is an “Eternal Language” (0)
- 05: Yale Presents an Archive of 170,000 Photographs Documenting the Great Depression (0)
- 05: Hear the Very Moment When World War I Came to an End (0)
- 04: The Paul McCartney is Dead Conspiracy Theory, Explained (3)
- 04: The History of Europe from 400 BC to the Present, Animated in 12 Minutes (2)
- 04: The Wisdom of Ram Dass Is Now Online: Stream 150 of His Enlightened Spiritual Talks as Free Podcasts (2)
- 04: Demystifying the Falsetto Obsession in Pop & Rock Music (2)
- 04: Voice Actor Dee Bradley Baker (Clone Wars,American Dad) Defends Cartoons on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #9 (0)
- 03: Meditation for Beginners: Buddhist Monks & Teachers Explain the Basics (3)
- 03: The Greatest Cut in Film History: Watch the “Match Cut” Immortalized by Lawrence of Arabia (3)
- 02: What Makes Guernica So Shocking? An Animated Video Explores the Impact of Picasso’s Monumental Anti-War Mural (1)
- 02: Watch I Signed the Petition, a Philosophical Meditation on the Decision to Sign a Petition Asking Radiohead to Boycott Tel Aviv (2)
- 02: Harvard Students Perform Amazing Boomwhacker Covers of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin,” Toto’s “Africa” & More (2)
- August 2019 (84)
- 30: How Marion Stokes, an Activist Librarian, Recorded 30 Years of TV News on 70,000 Video Tapes: It’s All Now Being Digitized and Put Online (1)
- 30: The Scandalous Painting That Helped Create Modern Art: An Introduction to Édouard Manet’s Olympia (2)
- 30: Lemony Snicket Reveals His Edward Gorey Obsession in an Upcoming Animated Documentary (0)
- 29: Watch the Completely Unsafe, Vertigo-Inducing Footage of Workers Building New York’s Iconic Skyscrapers (1)
- 29: Ray Harryhausen’s Creepy War of the Worlds Sketches and Stop-Motion Test Footage (2)
- 29: The Glorious Poster Art of the Soviet Space Program in Its Golden Age (1958-1963) (2)
- 29: A Digital Animation Compares the Size of Trees: From the 3-Inch Bonsai, to the 300-Foot Sequoia (0)
- 28: David Byrne Launches Reasons to Be Cheerful, an Online Magazine Featuring Articles by Byrne, Brian Eno & More (5)
- 28: Public Library Receipt Shows How Much Money You’ve Saved by Borrowing Books, Instead of Buying Them (9)
- 28: Werner Herzog Narrates the Existential Journey of a Plastic Bag: Watch a Short Film by Acclaimed Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani (0)
- 28: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #8 Discusses Spider-Man: Far From Home and the Function of Super-Hero Films (0)
- 27: David Gilmour Invites a Street Performer to Play Wine Glasses Onstage With Him In Venice: Hear Them Play “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” (0)
- 27: The Timeless Beauty of the Citroën DS, the Car Mythologized by Roland Barthes (1957) (0)
- 27: Why Should You Read Haruki Murakami? An Animated Video on His “Epic Literary Puzzle” Kafka on the Shore Makes the Case (0)
- 27: Klaus Nomi Performs with Kraftwerk on German Television (1982) (0)
- 26: Nigerian Teenagers Are Making Slick Sci Fi Films With Their Smartphones (0)
- 26: Harvard Gives Free Online Access to 40 Million Pages of U.S. Case Law: Explore 6.4 Million Cases Dating Back to 1658 (0)
- 26: Discover the Spelling Dictionary That Ludwig Wittgenstein Created for Elementary School Students (0)
- 25: Stream Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, a BBC Production Featuring Derek Jacobi (Free for a Limited Time) (0)
- 23: How Dave Brubeck’s Time Out Changed Jazz Music (5)
- 23: Why Route 66 Became America’s Most Famous Road (0)
- 23: Mister Rogers Demonstrates How to Cut a Record (0)
- 22: What Happens To Your Body & Brain If You Don’t Get Sleep? Neuroscientist Matthew Walker Explains (0)
- 22: Marilyn Monroe Recounts Her Harrowing Experience in a Psychiatric Ward (1961) (0)
- 22: Where Zombies Come From: A Video Essay on the Origin of the Horrifying, Satirical Monsters (1)
- 21: The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders: A Tokyo Restaurant Where All the Servers Are People Living with Dementia (16)
- 21: See How Zildjian Cymbals Are Made In a Fascinating 10-Minute Short Film (0)
- 21: Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue at 60: A New Video Essay Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the Iconic Album (2)
- 21: Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music: An Interactive, Encyclopedic Data Visualization of 120 Years of Electronic Music (0)
- 21: Actor Jonathan Joss (King of the Hill, Parks & Rec, Magnificent Seven) Discusses Indigenous American Representation on Pretty Much Pop Podcast #7 (0)
- 20: Miles Davis Iconic 1959 Album Kind of Blue Turns 60: Revisit the Album That Changed American Music (1)
- 20: Watch Some of the Most Powerful Bass Guitar Solos Ever: Geddy Lee, Flea, Bootsy Collins, John Deacon & More (5)
- 20: The Importance of Film Editing Demonstrated by the Bad Editing of Major Films: Bohemian Rhapsody, Suicide Squad & More (0)
- 20: Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Sings Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 (0)
- 19: Newly-Discovered John Coltrane Album, Blue World, To Be Released in September: Hear the Title Track Now (0)
- 19: Cy Kuckenbaker’s Time Collapse Videos Let You See Daily Life As You’ve Never Seen It Before (0)
- 19: Aldous Huxley Trips on Acid; Talks About Cats & the Secret of Life (1962) (0)
- 19: The Books on Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List (2019) (2)
- 16: How Joni Mitchell Wrote “Woodstock,” the Song that Defined the Legendary Music Festival, Even Though She Wasn’t There (1969) (1)
- 16: Hear Laurie Anderson Read from The Tibetan Book of the Dead on New Album Songs from the Bardo (1)
- 16: Science Shows That Snowball the Cockatoo Has 14 Different Dance Moves: The Vogue, Headbang & More (1)
- 15: Listen Online to Every Minute of the Original Woodstock Festival (0)
- 15: A Short Animated Introduction to Hypatia, Ancient Alexandria’s Great Female Philosopher (2)
- 15: Watch John Entwistle’s Bass-Playing Genius on Display in Isolated Tracks for “Won’t Be Fooled Again” and “Baba O’Reilly” (2)
- 15: People Pose in Uncanny Alignment with Iconic Album Covers: Discover The Sleeveface Project (0)
- 15: Philosopher Portraits: Famous Philosophers Painted in the Style of Influential Artists (0)
- 14: Leonardo da Vinci’s Elegant Design for a Perpetual Motion Machine (15)
- 14: Philip K. Dick Tarot Cards: A Tarot Deck Modeled After the Visionary Sci-Fi Writer’s Inner World (0)
- 14: Legendary Protest Songs from Woodstock: Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe & More Perform Protest Songs During the Music Festival That Launched 50 Years Ago This Week (0)
- 14: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #6: Why Adults Might Play Video Games (0)
- 13: Watch Animated Scores of Eric Satie’s Most Famous Pieces: “Gymnopedie No. 1” and “Gnossienne No. 1” (0)
- 13: Enjoy Dazzling & Dizzying 360° Virtual Tours of Los Angeles Landmarks (0)
- 13: View/Download the Highest Resolution MRI Scan of a Human Brain, Revealing It as We’ve Never Seen It Before (0)
- 13: An Hour-Long Collection of Live Footage Documents the Early Days of Pink Floyd (1967-1972) (4)
- 12: Manuscript Reveals How Medieval Nun, Joan of Leeds, Faked Her Own Death to Escape the Convent (2)
- 12: Take a Virtual Tour of Jane Austen’s Library (1)
- 12: Hear Glenn Gould Celebrate the Moog Synthesizer & Wendy Carlos’ Pioneering Album Switched-On Bach (1968) (4)
- 12: Johnny Knoxville Breaks Down Every Injury of His Career (0)
- 09: NASA Enlists Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, Norman Rockwell & 350 Other Artists to Visually Document America’s Space Program (1)
- 09: How to Focus: Five Talks Reveal the Secrets of Concentration (1)
- 09: Watch the Talking Heads Play Material From Their Groundbreaking Album Remain in Light in an Incredible Concert from 1980 (2)
- 08: Who Are the Best Drum Soloists in Rock? See Legendary Performances by Neil Peart (RIP), John Bonham, Keith Moon, Terry Bozzio & More (58)
- 08: How Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Computer Code That Helped Save the Apollo Moon Landing Mission (0)
- 08: How Scientists Colorize Those Beautiful Space Photos Taken By the Hubble Space Telescope (1)
- 08: Lucy Lawless Joins Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #5 on True Crime (0)
- 07: Leonard Cohen’s Cocktail Recipe: Learn How to Make “The Red Needle” (0)
- 07: Toni Morrison Deconstructs White Supremacy in America (4)
- 07: Joyce Carol Oates Teaches a New Online Course on the Art of the Short Story (0)
- 06: Hear Toni Morrison (RIP) Present Her Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech on the Radical Power of Language (1993) (0)
- 06: What the First Movies Really Looked Like: Discover the IMAX Films of the 1890s (0)
- 06: Discover Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Collection of Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online (1)
- 06: Why Is Jackie Chan the King of Action Comedy? A Video Essay Masterfully Makes the Case (0)
- 05: Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin: Stream Online (for a Limited Time) a New Documentary Exploring the Life & Work of the Legendary Sci-Fi Writer (4)
- 05: RIP D.A. Pennebaker: Watch Scenes from His Groundbreaking Bob Dylan Documentary Dont Look Back (0)
- 05: The Authentic Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: Watch a Performance Based on Original Manuscripts & Played with 18th-Century Instruments (0)
- 05: An Artist Crochets a Life-Size, Anatomically-Correct Skeleton, Complete with Organs (0)
- 02: Why a Cat Always Lands on Its Feet: How a French Scientist Used Photography to Solve the Problem in 1894 (0)
- 02: The Library of Congress Digitizes Over 16,000 Pages of Letters & Speeches from the Women’s Suffrage Movement, and You Can Help Transcribe Them (2)
- 02: The Unexpected Ways Eastern Philosophy Can Make Us Wiser, More Compassionate & Better Able to Appreciate Our Lives (2)
- 02: Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” Sung in the Style of David Bowie (0)
- 02: Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #4 – HBO’s “Chernobyl”: Why Do We Enjoy Watching Suffering? (0)
- 01: The Authentic Pachelbel’s Canon: Watch a Performance Based on the Original Manuscript & Played with Original 17th-Century Instruments (11)
- 01: Mont Saint-Michel Beautifully Viewed from a Drone (0)
- 01: How the Yamaha DX7 Digital Synthesizer Defined the Sound of 1980s Music (2)
- July 2019 (81)
- 31: How Quentin Tarantino Steals from Other Movies: A Video Essay (3)
- 31: An Introduction to Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda: Romantic, Radical & Revolutionary (0)
- 31: David Bowie Picks His 12 Favorite David Bowie Songs: Listen to Them Online (5)
- 30: Watch Pink Floyd Play Live Amidst the Ruins of Pompeii in 1971 … and David Gilmour Does It Again in 2016 (2)
- 30: How Ladies & Gentlemen Got Dressed in the 18th Century: It Was a Pretty Involved Process (0)
- 30: The Therapeutic Benefits of Ambient Music: Science Shows How It Eases Chronic Anxiety, Physical Pain, and ICU-Related Trauma (1)
- 29: Behold Color Photographs Taken During the Aftermath of San Francisco’s Devastating 1906 Earthquake (1)
- 29: Sir Ian McKellen Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter to High School Students: Make Art and “Make Your Soul Grow” (0)
- 29: How B.B. King & Stevie Ray Vaughan Dealt With Breaking Strings Onstage Mid-Song: A Masterclass in Handling Onstage Mishaps (1)
- 29: Pretty Much Pop #3: CONFORM with Yakov Smirnoff (0)
- 28: Moonlight Strikes 107,000 Solar Mirrors & Creates a Portrait of Apollo 11 Computer Programmer Margaret Hamilton (0)
- 26: Martin Amis Explains How to Use a Thesaurus to Actually Improve Your Writing (1)
- 26: Bryan Magee (RIP) Presents In-Depth, Uncut TV Conversations With Famous Philosophers (7)
- 26: How Kurt Cobain Confronted Violence Against Women in His “Darkest Song”: Nevermind‘s “Polly” (0)
- 26: Watch an Animated Documentary About the Pioneering Journalist & Feminist Icon Nellie Bly (1)
- 25: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins Go Through Customs and Sign Immigration Form After the First Moon Landing (1969) (1)
- 24: “I Saw the Future”: Rutger Hauer (RIP) Remembers His Most Memorable Role in Blade Runner (0)
- 24: Why Should We Read Virgil’s Aeneid? An Animated Video Makes the Case (1)
- 24: Deconstructing Brian Eno’s Music for Airports: Explore the Tape Loops That Make Up His Groundbreaking Ambient Music (0)
- 24: The Jane Austen Fiction Manuscript Archive Is Online: Explore Handwritten Drafts of Persuasion, The Watsons & More (0)
- 24: Why 1999 Was the Year of Dystopian Office Movies: What The Matrix, Fight Club, American Beauty, Office Space & Being John Malkovich Shared in Common (0)
- 23: Can Artificial Intelligence Decipher Lost Languages? Researchers Attempt to Decode 3500-Year-Old Ancient Languages (1)
- 23: A 9th Century Manuscript Teaches Astronomy by Making Sublime Pictures Out of Words (0)
- 23: The Velvet Underground Captured in Color Concert Footage by Andy Warhol (1967) (0)
- 23: Pretty Much Pop #2: Binge Watching (0)
- 22: A New Interactive Visualization of the 165,000 Most-Frequently Assigned Texts in College Courses (1)
- 22: Mister Rogers Creates a Prime Time TV Special to Help Parents Talk to Their Children About the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (1968) (1)
- 22: What Happens When Artificial Intelligence Listens to John Coltrane’s Interstellar Space & Starts to Create Its Own Free Jazz (3)
- 19: Every Harrowing Second of the Apollo 11 Landing Revisited in a New NASA Video: It Took Place 50 Years Ago Today (July 20, 1969) (1)
- 19: Alexis de Tocqueville’s Prediction of How American Democracy Could Lapse Into Despotism, Read by Michel Houellebecq (5)
- 19: Songs by Joni Mitchell Re-Imagined as Pulp Fiction Book Covers & Vintage Movie Posters (2)
- 18: Richard Feynman’s Technique for Learning Something New: An Animated Introduction (3)
- 18: Buckminster Fuller Tells the World “Everything He Knows” in a 42-Hour Lecture Series (1975) (2)
- 18: Introducing Pretty Much Pop (A Culture Podcast): Episode 1 – Pop Culture vs. High Culture (0)
- 18: An Animated Introduction to the Magical Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges (0)
- 18: There’s a Tiny Art Museum on the Moon That Features the Art of Andy Warhol & Robert Rauschenberg (1)
- 17: The Romanovs’ Last Spectacular Ball Brought to Life in Color Photographs (1903) (24)
- 17: When Neil Young & Devo Jammed Together: Watch Them Play “Hey Hey, My My” in a Clip from the 1982 Film Human Highway (0)
- 17: Beatles Songs Re-Imagined as Vintage Book Covers and Magazine Pages: “Drive My Car,” “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” & More (0)
- 16: Alan Turing Will Be Featured on England’s New £50 Banknote (0)
- 16: Behold Fantastical Illustrations from the 13th Century Arabic Manuscript Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing (0)
- 16: The Piano Played with 16 Increasing Levels of Complexity: From Easy to Very Complex (0)
- 16: The Principles for Success by Entrepreneur & Investor Ray Dalio: A 30-Minute Animated Primer (0)
- 15: What Happened to the 1200 Paintings Painted by Bob Ross? The Mystery Has Finally Been Solved (10)
- 15: The 1855 Map That Revolutionized Disease Prevention & Data Visualization: Discover John Snow’s Broad Street Pump Map (0)
- 15: Why Should We Read Pioneering Sci-Fi Writer Octavia Butler? An Animated Video Makes the Case (0)
- 15: George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, Praised as the Greatest Comic Strip of All Time, Gets Digitized as Early Installments Enter the Public Domain (3)
- 14: An Illustrated Version of The Mueller Report: Read Online an Edition Created by the Author of Black Hawk Down and an Illustrator from Archer (2)
- 12: A Beautiful 1870 Visualization of the Hallucinations That Come Before a Migraine (13)
- 12: Hear the First Recording of the Human Voice (1860) (4)
- 12: The New David Bowie Barbie Doll Released to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of “Space Oddity” (2)
- 11: The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online (7)
- 11: The Evolution of the World Map: An Inventive Infographic Shows How Our Picture of the World Changed Over 1,800 Years (2)
- 11: Napoleon’s Disastrous Invasion of Russia Detailed in an 1869 Data Visualization: It’s Been Called “the Best Statistical Graphic Ever Drawn” (0)
- 10: The Restoration of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch Begins: Watch the Painstaking Process On-Site and Online (0)
- 10: Arnold Schoenberg, Avant-Garde Composer, Creates a System of Symbols for Notating Tennis Matches (0)
- 10: David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” and the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Turn 50 This Month: Celebrate Two Giant Leaps That Took Place 9 Days Apart (3)
- 10: Lennon or McCartney? Scientists Use Artificial Intelligence to Figure Out Who Wrote Iconic Beatles Songs (3)
- 09: The Simpsons Reimagined as a Russian Art Film (5)
- 09: When MAD Magazine Ruffled the Feathers of the FBI, Not Once But Three Times (0)
- 09: The Most Disturbing Painting: A Close Look at Francisco Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son” (6)
- 08: Deconstructing Stevie Wonder’s Ode to Jazz and His Hero Duke Ellington: A Great Breakdown of “Sir Duke” (3)
- 08: Download Beautiful Panoramic Paintings of U.S. National Parks by H.C. Berann: Maps That Look Even More Vivid Than the Real Thing (0)
- 08: Remembering the “Father of Bossa Nova” João Gilberto (RIP) with Four Classic Live Performances: “The Girl From Ipanema,” “Corcovado” & More (1)
- 05: The Secret Language of Trees: A Charming Animated Lesson Explains How Trees Share Information with Each Other (5)
- 05: The End of an Era: MAD Magazine Will Publish Its Last Issue With Original Content This Fall (12)
- 05: The Walkman Turns 40: See Every Generation of Sony’s Iconic Personal Stereo in One Minute (0)
- 04: How Intellectual Humility Can Boost Our Curiosity & Ability to Learn: Read the Findings of a New Study (0)
- 04: Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944) (3)
- 04: When Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Contest & Came in 20th Place (1)
- 03: A Documentary Introduction to Nick Drake, Whose Haunting & Influential Songs Came Into the World 50 Years Ago Today (0)
- 03: Anton Chekhov’s Six Rules For Writing Fiction (1)
- 03: Hear Wade in the Water: An Unprecedented 26-Hour-Long Exploration of the African American Sacred Music Tradition (0)
- 03: A Witty Dictionary of Victorian Slang (1909) (0)
- 03: How Sleep Can Become Your “Superpower:” Scientist Matt Walker Explains Why Sleep Helps You Learn More and Live Longer (0)
- 02: How to Read Many More Books in a Year: Watch a Short Documentary Featuring Some of the World’s Most Beautiful Bookstores (2)
- 02: Segregated By Design: An Animated Look at How African-American Enclaves in U.S. Cities Is Hardly an Accident (0)
- 02: Watch The Velvet Underground Perform in Rare Color Footage: Scenes from a Vietnam War Protest Concert (1969) (0)
- 01: The First Museum Dedicated Exclusively to Poster Art Opens Its Doors in the U.S.: Enter the Poster House (1)
- 01: Watch a Star-Studded Cast Read The Mueller Report: John Lithgow, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Annette Bening & More (2)
- 01: Queen Guitarist Brian May Is Also an Astrophysicist: Read His PhD Thesis Online (6)
- June 2019 (69)
- 28: A Quick Six Minute Journey Through Modern Art: How You Get from Manet’s 1862 Painting, “The Luncheon on the Grass,” to Jackson Pollock 1950s Drip Paintings (0)
- 28: How Cinemas Taught Early Movie-Goers the Rules & Etiquette for Watching Films (1912): No Whistling, Standing or Wearing Big Hats (1)
- 28: 3 Iconic Paintings by Frida Kahlo Get Reborn as Vans Skate Shoes (0)
- 27: Meet Emma Willard, the First Female Map Maker in the U.S., and Her Brilliantly Inventive Maps (Circa 1826) (0)
- 27: 19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively Illustrate the Inner Workings of the Human Body (1)
- 27: How to Rescue a Wet, Damaged Book: A Handy Visual Primer (4)
- 27: Deliberate Practice: A Mindful & Methodical Way to Master Any Skill (3)
- 26: Arab Photography Archive Puts 22,000 Historic Images Online: Get a Rare Glimpse into Life and Art in the Arab World (1)
- 26: Joy Harjo, Newly-Appointed U.S. Poet Laureate, Reads Her Poems, “Remember,” “A Poem to Get Rid of Fear,” “An American Sunrise” and More (2)
- 26: Watch Battered & Bruised Vintage Toys Get Mesmerizingly Restored to Near Mint Condition (1)
- 25: In 1886, the US Government Commissioned 7,500 Watercolor Paintings of Every Known Fruit in the World: Download Them in High Resolution (13)
- 25: Two Animated Maps Show the Expansion of the U.S. from the Different Perspectives of Settlers & Native Peoples (1)
- 25: The Meandering Mississippi River and How It Evolved Over Thousands of Years Visualized in Brilliant Maps from 1944 (2)
- 25: Cartoonist Lynda Barry Teaches You How to Draw (0)
- 24: Elvis Costello’s List of 500 Albums That Will Improve Your Life (0)
- 24: An Introduction to the Life & Music of Fela Kuti: Radical Nigerian Bandleader, Political Hero, and Creator of Afrobeat (5)
- 24: Winston Churchill Gets a Doctor’s Note to Drink “Unlimited” Alcohol in Prohibition America (1932) (1)
- 21: Pink Floyd Drummer Nick Mason Presents the History of Music & Technology in a Nine-Part BBC Podcast (0)
- 21: What the Textbooks Don’t Tell Us About The Atlantic Slave Trade: An Animated Video Fills In Historical Gaps (2)
- 21: What Advice Would You Give Your Younger Self?: What Research Shows, and What You Have to Say (3)
- 21: Hear a Previously Unheard Freddie Mercury Song, “Time Waits for No One,” Unearthed After 33 Years (0)
- 20: The Atlas of Space: Behold Brilliant Maps of Constellations, Asteroids, Planets & “Everything in the Solar System Bigger Than 10km” (0)
- 20: Stanford’s Robert Sapolsky Demystifies Depression, Which, Like Diabetes, Is Rooted in Biology (0)
- 20: Apollo 11 in Real Time: A New Web Site Lets You Take a Real-Time Journey Through First Landing on the Moon (0)
- 19: How to Argue With Kindness and Care: 4 Rules from Philosopher Daniel Dennett (2)
- 19: How Blondie’s Debbie Harry Learned to Deal With Superficial, Demeaning Interviewers (1)
- 19: When Stanley Kubrick Banned His Own Film, A Clockwork Orange: It Was the “Most Effective Censorship of a Film in British History” (0)
- 18: Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky Debate Human Nature & Power on Dutch TV (1971) (1)
- 18: How the Universe Will Come to Its Explosive End: Trillions of Years Covered in 29 Timelapse Minutes (2)
- 18: The Ruins of Chernobyl Captured in Three Haunting, Drone-Shot Videos (1)
- 17: Lost Miles Davis Album, Rubberband, Will Finally Be Released This Fall: Hear the Title Track, “Rubberband,” in Five Different Versions (0)
- 17: Women Who Draw: Explore an Open Directory That Showcases the Work of 5,000+ Female Illustrators (1)
- 17: Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away Opens in China 18 Years After Its Original Release: See Beautiful New Posters for the Film (0)
- 16: A Wild 40-Minute Race Down Alpe D’Huez (0)
- 14: Scenes from HBO’s Chernobyl v. Real Footage Shot in 1986: A Side-By-Side Comparison (1)
- 14: Hear What’s Likely the Only Known Recording of Frida Kahlo’s Voice (1954) (4)
- 14: The Brilliant Colors of the Great Barrier Revealed in a Historic Illustrated Book from 1893 (0)
- 13: An Interactive Map of Odysseus’ 10-Year Journey in Homer’s Odyssey (8)
- 13: New Interactive “Murder Map” Reveals the Meanest Streets of Medieval London (2)
- 13: Atheists & Agnostics Also Frequently Believe in the Supernatural, a New Study Shows (3)
- 13: A Subway Map of Human Anatomy: All the Systems of Our Body Visualized in the Style of the London Underground (0)
- 12: Radiohead Releases 18 Hours of Demos from OK Computer for a Limited Time–After Hackers Try to Hold Them for Ransom (0)
- 12: The Recorder Played Like You’ve Never Heard it Before: Hear a Stunning Solo from Vivaldi’s Recorder Concerto in C Major (1)
- 12: Leonardo da Vinci’s Huge Notebook Collections, the Codex Forster, Now Digitized in High-Resolution: Explore Them Online (2)
- 11: Meet Gerda Taro, the First Female Photojournalist to Die on the Front Lines (4)
- 11: Oliver Sacks Promotes the Healing Power of Gardens: They’re “More Powerful Than Any Medication” (2)
- 11: Watch The Meaning of Life: One of the Best Animated Short Films Ever Made Traces the Evolution of Life, the Universe & Beyond (0)
- 10: Watch 3,000 Films Free Online from the National Film Board of Canada, Including Portraits of Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood & Jack Kerouac (0)
- 10: Andy Warhol Explains Why He Decided to Give Up Painting & Manage the Velvet Underground Instead (1966) (5)
- 10: Jeff Tweedy Explains How to Learn to Love Music You Hate: Watch a Video Animated by R. Sikoryak (1)
- 07: How David Bowie Delivered His Two Most Famous Farewells: As Ziggy Stardust in 1973, and at the End of His Life in 2016 (2)
- 07: What Did Old English Sound Like? Hear Reconstructions of Beowulf, The Bible, and Casual Conversations (4)
- 07: A New Photo Book Documents the Wonderful Homemade Cat Ladders of Switzerland (1)
- 07: The Longest of the Grateful Dead’s Epic Long Jams: “Dark Star” (1972), “The Other One” (1972) and “Playing in The Band” (1974) (2)
- 06: Bryan Cranston Narrates the Landing on Omaha Beach on the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion (0)
- 06: Download Iconic National Park Fonts: They’re Now Digitized & Free to Use (0)
- 06: The Roads of Ancient Rome Visualized in the Style of Modern Subway Maps (0)
- 06: When Kraftwerk Issued Their Own Pocket Calculator Synthesizer — to Play Their Song “Pocket Calculator” (1981) (3)
- 05: See the Very First Solar Eclipse Captured on Film: A Magical Moment in Science and Filmmaking (1900) (0)
- 05: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Jared Diamond Describes How the U.S. Could Become a Dictatorship in 10 Years (13)
- 05: 136 Maps Reveal Where Tourists & Locals Take Photos in Major Cities Across the Globe (0)
- 04: Marie Curie Became the First Woman to Win a Nobel Prize, the First Person to Win Twice, and the Only Person in History to Win in Two Different Sciences (1)
- 04: Watch the First Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s New Film, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story (3)
- 04: Exercise May Prove an Effective Natural Treatment for Depression & Anxiety, New Study Shows (0)
- 04: The Giger Bar: Discover the 1980s Tokyo Bar Designed by H. R. Giger, the Same Artist Who Created the Nightmarish Monster in Ridley Scott’s Alien (1)
- 03: What If We’re Wrong?: An Animated Video Challenges Our Most Deeply Held Beliefs–With the Help of a Ludwig Wittgenstein Thought Experiment (8)
- 03: Watch John Bonham’s Blistering 13-Minute Drum Solo on “Moby Dick,” One of His Finest Moments Live Onstage (1970) (2)
- 03: Why You Should Read The Master and Margarita: An Animated Introduction to Bulgakov’s Rollicking Soviet Satire (1)
- 03: Elton John Takes Us Through the Creative Process of His Early Hit “Tiny Dancer” (1970) (1)
- May 2019 (86)
- 31: The Cure Performed the Entire “Disintegration” Album on the 30th Anniversary of Its Release: Watch The Complete Concert Online (2)
- 31: The First Museum Dedicated to Japanese Folklore Monsters Is Now Open (0)
- 31: The Art & Cooking of Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dali, Georgia O’Keeffe, Vincent Van Gogh & More (0)
- 31: Metallica, REM, Led Zeppelin & Queen Sung in the Style of Gregorian Chant (0)
- 30: 1980s Metalhead Kids Are Alright: Scientific Study Shows That They Became Well-Adjusted Adults (14)
- 30: Take a Visual Journey Through 181 Years of Street Photography (1838-2019) (2)
- 30: When Boris Pasternak Won–and Then the Soviets Forced Him to Decline–the Nobel Prize (1958) (1)
- 29: The Story of Pure Hell, the “First Black Punk Band” That Emerged in the 70s, Then Disappeared for Decades (2)
- 29: How Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Recreates the Epic Hero’s Journey Described by Joseph Campbell (1)
- 29: The Psychological Dimensions of Game of Thrones: The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast Explores the Fantasy Spectacle (0)
- 29: McDonald’s Opens a Tiny Restaurant — and It’s Only for Bees (0)
- 28: Download 91,000 Historic Maps from the Massive David Rumsey Map Collection (5)
- 28: Bill Gates Recommends Five Books to Read This Summer (0)
- 28: Hear the Song That Two Teenage Musicians, Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, Recorded Together in 1958 (0)
- 28: Andy Warhol Demystified: Four Videos Explain His Groundbreaking Art and Its Cultural Impact (0)
- 27: How Carl Jung Inspired the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous (9)
- 27: Watch Patti Smith’s New Tribute to the Avant-Garde Poet Antonin Artaud (0)
- 27: Why You Should Read Crime and Punishment: An Animated Introduction to Dostoevsky’s Moral Thriller (5)
- 25: Todd Rundgren’s Advice to Young Artists: Be Free and Fearless, Make Art That Expresses Your True Self, and Never Mind the Critics (2)
- 25: The Mueller Report Released as a Free Well-Formatted eBook (by The Digital Public Library of America) (3)
- 24: How Computers Ruined Rock Music (4)
- 24: Johannes Kepler Theorized That Each Planet Sings a Song, Each in a Different Voice: Mars is a Tenor; Mercury, a Soprano; and Earth, an Alto (1)
- 23: New Web Project Immortalizes the Overlooked Women Who Helped Create Rock and Roll in the 1950s (18)
- 23: The Creative Life of Jim Henson Explored in a Six-Part Documentary Series (0)
- 23: When John Waters Appeared on The Simpsons and Changed America’s LGBTQ Views (1997) (5)
- 22: Banksy Strikes Again in Venice (2)
- 22: Fleetwood Mac Unveils Their New Singer Stevie Nicks, and The World Takes Notice: Watch Bewitching Performances of “Rhiannon” (1975-1976) (2)
- 22: The Strikingly Beautiful Maps & Charts That Fired the Imagination of Students in the 1880s (0)
- 22: The Lives of John Coltrane & Billie Holiday Are Now Told in Two Graphic Novels (2)
- 21: The Bauhaus Bookshelf: Download Original Bauhaus Books, Journals, Manifestos & Ads That Still Inspire Designers Worldwide (1)
- 21: James Taylor Gives Guitar Lessons, Teaching You How to Play Classic Songs Like “Fire and Rain,” “Country Road” & “Carolina in My Mind” (2)
- 21: The Story of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Rise in the 1980s Art World Gets Told in a New Graphic Novel (1)
- 20: MIT Robot Breaks Rubik’s Cube World Record, Solving It in 0.38 Seconds (1)
- 20: Who Is Neil Young?: A Video Essay Explores the Two Sides of the Versatile Musician–Folk Icon and Father of Grunge (3)
- 20: Keith Moon Plays Drums Onstage with Led Zeppelin in What Would Be His Last Live Performance (1977) (5)
- 20: Discover Kōlams, the Traditional Indian Patterns That Combine Art, Mathematics & Magic (0)
- 19: Graduation Highlight: Billionaire Robert F. Smith Announces That He’ll Pay Off the Student Loans of Morehouse’s Class of 2019 (2)
- 17: Pink Floyd Songs Played Splendidly on a Harp Guitar: “Comfortably Numb,” “Wish You Were Here” & More (0)
- 17: A New Archive Transcribes and Puts Online the Diaries & Notebooks of Women Artists, Art Historians, Critics and Dealers (0)
- 17: What Did Etruscan Sound Like? An Animated Video Pronounces the Ancient Language That We Still Don’t Fully Understand (1)
- 16: The Who and Jimmy Fallon Sing “Won’t Get Fooled Again” with Classroom Instruments (0)
- 16: When The New York Times Got Duped into Publishing “The Lexicon of Grunge” in 1992–Words Like “Lamestain,” “Wack Slacks,” “Harsh Realm” & More (2)
- 16: Critical Thinking: A Free Course (2)
- 16: Hunter S. Thompson’s Ballsy Job Application Letter (1958) (0)
- 16: The Writing System of the Cryptic Voynich Manuscript Explained: British Researcher May Have Finally Cracked the Code (2)
- 15: A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Existing Collection of His Drawings & Writings (1)
- 15: When Dracula Author Bram Stoker Wrote a Gushing Fan Letter to Walt Whitman (1870) (0)
- 15: Creative Commons Officially Launches a Search Engine That Indexes 300+ Million Public Domain Images (2)
- 15: Paris, New York & Havana Come to Life in Colorized Films Shot Between 1890 and 1931 (0)
- 14: Free: Play the Original “Minecraft” in Your Browser (47)
- 14: Learn Philosophy with a Wealth of Free Courses, Podcasts and YouTube Videos (1)
- 14: Watch “Critical Living,” a Stop-Motion Film Inspired by the 1960s Movement That Rejected Modern Ideas About Mental Illness (0)
- 14: Would You Go Back to 1889 and Take Out Baby Hitler?: Time-Travel Expert James Gleick Answers the Philosophical Question (9)
- 13: Oliver Sacks’ Recommended Reading List of 46 Books: From Plants and Neuroscience, to Poetry and the Prose of Nabokov (2)
- 13: An Animated Introduction to the World’s Five Major Religions: Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity & Islam (2)
- 13: Watch the World’s First Animated Cartoon, 1908’s Trippy, Funny Fantasmagorie (0)
- 10: The Artistry of the Mentally Ill: The 1922 Book That Published the Fascinating Work of Schizophrenic Patients, and Influenced Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky & Other Avant Garde Artists (3)
- 10: Why Knights Fought Snails in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts (13)
- 10: Star Trek‘s Nichelle Nichols Creates a Short Film for NASA to Recruit New Astronauts (1977) (0)
- 09: “Gonzo” Defined by Hunter S. Thompson’s Personal Copy of the Random House Dictionary (0)
- 09: Tangled Up in Blue: Deciphering a Bob Dylan Masterpiece (0)
- 09: A Mesmerizing Trip Across the Brooklyn Bridge: Watch Footage from 1899 (0)
- 09: Discover Friedrich Nietzsche’s Curious Typewriter, the “Malling-Hansen Writing Ball” (Circa 1881) (1)
- 09: What is Camp? When the “Good Taste of Bad Taste” Becomes an Aesthetic (0)
- 08: Discover Frida Kahlo’s Wildly-Illustrated Diary: It Chronicled the Last 10 Years of Her Life, and Then Got Locked Away for Decades (0)
- 08: Mapping Emotions in the Body: A Finnish Neuroscience Study Reveals Where We Feel Emotions in Our Bodies (5)
- 08: Is the Leonardo da Vinci Painting “Salvator Mundi” (Which Sold for $450 Million in 2017) Actually Authentic?: Michael Lewis Explores the Question in His New Podcast (2)
- 08: What the Theory?: Watch Short Introductions to Postmodernism, Semiotics, Phenomenology, Marxist Literary Criticism and More (0)
- 07: How David Bowie Used William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Method to Write His Unforgettable Lyrics (5)
- 07: Mr. Rogers’ Nine Rules for Speaking to Children (1977) (0)
- 07: Why the World’s Best Mathematicians Are Hoarding Japanese Chalk (2)
- 07: Pioneering Computer Scientist Grace Hopper Shows Us How to Visualize a Nanosecond (1983) (0)
- 06: Venerable Female Artists, Musicians & Authors Give Advice to the Young: Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson & More (0)
- 06: What Is Performance Art?: We Explain It with Video Introductions and Classic Performances (0)
- 06: The Shifting Power of the World’s Largest Cities Visualized Over 4,000 Years (2050 BC-2050 AD) (0)
- 06: The Rise and Fall of Western Empires Visualized Through the Artful Metaphor of Cell Division (0)
- 03: How to Memorize an Entire Chapter from “Moby Dick”: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (1)
- 03: How to Make a Medieval Manuscript: An Introduction in 7 Videos (0)
- 02: The Last Duel Took Place in France in 1967, and It’s Caught on Film (11)
- 02: 53 Years of Nuclear Testing in 14 Minutes: A Time Lapse Film by Japanese Artist Isao Hashimoto (0)
- 02: When American Financiers and Business Leaders Plotted to Overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt and Install a Fascist Government in the U.S. (1933) (6)
- 02: Behold the Ingenious Musical Marble Machine (0)
- 01: Meanwhile, Inside the Box, Schrodinger’s Cat Plans Its Revenge… (3)
- 01: Elizabeth Cotten Wrote “Freight Train” at 11, Won a Grammy at 90, and Changed American Music In-Between (0)
- 01: Classic Children’s Books Now Digitized and Put Online: Revisit Vintage Works from the 19th & 20th Centuries (0)
- 01: Watch Six New Short Alien Films: Created to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Film (0)
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- 30: A Dictionary of Words Invented to Name Emotions We All Feel, But Don’t Yet Have a Name For: Vemödalen, Sonder, Chrysalism & Much More (9)
- 30: High School Kids Stage Alien: The Play and You Can Now Watch It Online (0)
- 30: Herbie Hancock’s Joyous Soundtrack for the Original Fat Albert TV Special (1969) (1)
- 30: The Cast of Avengers: Endgame Rendered in Traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e Style (0)
- 29: Hear Debbie Harry’s Stunning Ethereal Vocal Tracks from “Heart of Glass,” “Call Me,” “Rapture,” and “One Way or Another” (4)
- 29: Roald Dahl, Who Lost His Daughter to Measles, Writes a Heartbreaking Letter about Vaccinations: “It Is Almost a Crime to Allow Your Child to Go Unimmunised” (5)
- 29: Is Modern Society Stealing What Makes Us Human?: A Glimpse Into Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra by The Partially Examined Life (4)
- 29: Meet Freddie Mercury and His Faithful Feline Friends (1)
- 29: Watch the Twin Peaks Visual Soundtrack Released Only in Japan: A New Way to Experience David Lynch’s Classic Show (0)
- 28: How to Take 70+ MasterClass Courses For Less Than a Cup of Good Coffee (3)
- 26: Why Do Sad People Like to Listen to Sad Music? Psychologists Answer the Question in Two Studies (15)
- 26: Steven Pinker & Rebecca Goldstein Debate the Value of Reason in an Animated Socratic Dialogue (0)
- 26: Steve Jobs Shares a Secret for Success: Don’t Be Afraid to Ask for Help (0)
- 26: Trivial Pursuit: The Shakespeare Edition Has Just Been Released: Answer 600 Questions Based on the Life & Works of William Shakespeare (0)
- 25: David Bowie’s Mystical Appearances in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks (4)
- 25: Listen to Last Seen, a True-Crime Podcast That Takes You Inside an Unsolved, $500 Million Art Heist (0)
- 25: Animated Maps Reveal the True Size of Countries (and Show How Traditional Maps Distort Our World) (1)
- 25: The Ten Greatest Films of All Time According to 358 Filmmakers (56)
- 24: An Animated Introduction to H.P. Lovecraft and How He Invented a New Gothic Horror (2)
- 24: A Short Animated Film Explores the Fluidity of Gender in the Thought of Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler (1)
- 24: Stream Free Online 200 Films from Tribeca Film Festivals (0)
- 24: Freddie Mercury Reimagined as Comic Book Heroes (1)
- 23: Hear J.R.R. Tolkien Read from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in Vintage Recordings from the Early 1950s (3)
- 23: Hear Pink Floyd’s “Great Gig in the Sky” Played on the Theremin (0)
- 23: The Medieval City Plan Generator: A Fun Way to Create Your Own Imaginary Medieval Cities <